Software Development👥 1001 employees📍 New York, New York, USEst. 2011
Braze ($BRZE) is a leading customer engagement platform that powers lasting connections between consumers and brands they love. Braze allows any marketer to collect and take action on any amount of d…
Job Overview
At Braze, we have found our people. We’re a genuinely approachable, exceptionally kind, and intensely passionate crew. We seek to ignite that passion by setting high standards, championing teamwork, and creating work-life harmony as we collectively navigate rapid growth on a global scale while striving for greater equity and opportunity – inside and outside our organization. There is always a way to contribute: Acting with autonomy, having accountability and being open to new perspectives are essential to our continued success. Our deep curiosity to learn and our eagerness to share diverse passions with others gives us balance and injects a one-of-a-kind vibrancy into our culture. If you are driven to solve exhilarating challenges and have a bias toward action in the face of change, you will be empowered to make a real impact here, with a sharp and passionate team at your back.
What You'll Do
We're looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for our Currents team, responsible for building, maintaining, and evolving Currents, our data export system at scale. The Currents system is a robust Kafka-based event pipeline handling tens of billions of messages daily that our customers leverage to analyze user behavior in near real-time. You’ll be a key engineer on a highly collaborative and skilled team, responsible for bringing projects from concept to production and improving our existing high-scale systems. You will be leveraging your experience, your skills, and a strong sense of teamwork to tackle the significant engineering challenges of running a critical data streaming system. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will specifically focus on the observability, scalability, and reliability strategy aspects of every project. Specific examples of what this translates to:
Solve live performance and reliability issues and prevent their recurrence
Write and review code, educating engineers and building a culture of reliability
Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems
Define and enable standards for monitoring, reliability, and performance
Bridge the gap between infrastructure and platform engineering teams
Support and improve services by planning for scale and reliability
Guide junior engineers in SRE best practices, software engineering, and agile project leadership
Who You Are
Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related STEM field Five (5) years of experience in any role/occupation/position involving software engineering or site reliability engineering Experience must include:
Using distributed systems to deploy and monitor live applications such as Kubernetes or Docker Swarm
Working with alerting software (Sentry, Datadog, and/or PagerDuty)
Utilizing programming languages (Java, Kotlin, and/or Ruby) to understand and contribute to the codebase
Storing data in relational and non-relational databases such as Postgres and MongoDb
Data streaming or queuing systems to build data pipelines with technologies like Kafka, Sidekiq or SQS and SNS
Leveraging continuous integration tools such as Jenkins or Buildkite
Collaborating with engineers through pull requests and code reviews in version control software such as or GitLab
What We Offer
Braze benefits vary by location, and we encourage you to review our specific benefits offerings for each country here. More details on benefits plans will be provided if you receive an offer of employment. From offering comprehensive benefits to fostering hybrid ways of working, we’ve got you covered so you can prioritize work-life harmony. Braze offers benefits such as:
Competitive compensation that may include equity
Retirement and Employee Stock Purchase Plans
Flexible paid time off
Comprehensive benefit plans covering medical, dental, vision, life, and disability
Family services that include fertility benefits and equal paid parental leave
Professional development supported by formal career pathing, learning platforms, and a yearly learning stipend
A curated in-office employee experience, designed to foster community, team connections, and innovation
Opportunities to give back to your community, including an annual company-wide Volunteer Week and donation matching
Employee Resource Groups that provide supportive communities within Braze
Collaborative, transparent, and fun culture recognized as a Great Place to Work®
About Braze
Braze is the leading customer engagement platform that empowers brands to Be Absolutely Engaging.™ Braze helps brands deliver great customer experiences that drive value both for consumers and for their businesses. Built on a foundation of composable intelligence, BrazeAI™ allows marketers to combine and activate AI agents, models, and features at every touchpoint throughout the Braze Customer Engagement Platform for smarter, faster, and more meaningful customer engagement. From cross-channel messaging and journey orchestration to Al-powered decisioning and optimization, Braze enables companies to turn action into interaction through autonomous, 1:1 personalized experiences.
