Senior Platform Software Engineer II

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Platform Software Engineers (PSWEs) are responsible for building, maintaining, and evolving our internal infrastructure as a service platform. Platform engineers are software engineers who apply sound engineering principles, operational discipline, and mature automation to the environments and infrastructure services we provide. We specialize in moving expertise in deploying and operating infrastructure from people to software –whether it be database provisioning and upgrades, Kafka topic management, or some more specific interest in high-scale data or distributed systems.

Our team helps to improve infrastructure reliability via automation and services. It empowers Braze’s other engineering teams to leverage the infrastructure products and platforms we create easily. Braze operates at a massive scale with over 8.5 billion monthly active users across our customers, collecting hundreds of billions of data points each month and sending billions of messages to end-users daily. We use a diverse technology stack rooted in Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, Kubernetes, and more. As a Platform Software Engineer at Braze, you will collaborate with your team and consumer engineering teams to build and continuously improve the infrastructure as a service platform that every other team at Braze depends on.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with Braze’s engineering teams on:

  • Defining and implementing IaaS productions that will help them build and deploy quicker
  • Make monitoring and alerting alerts on symptoms and not on outages
  • Ensure that Braze meets our strict enterprise-grade SLAs with customers

• Develop Braze’s embedded frameworks that enable large-scale distributed processings

  • Design, build, and operate internal software frameworks that power Braze’s asynchronous and background processing systems at massive scale
  • Evolve and extend frameworks built on technologies such as Sidekiq to reliably execute trillions of jobs per day across a globally distributed platform
  • Own scaling behavior, reliability guarantees, failure modes, and operational safety of these systems
  • Provide opinionated abstractions, tooling, and guardrails that allow application teams to use distributed processing safely without needing to manage underlying complexity
  • Improve observability, debuggability, and operational ergonomics for large-scale job-processing systems

• Develop Braze’s internal Infrastructure as a Service platform (IaaS):

  • Develop, implement, and maintain the software services that provide custom infrastructure services
  • Provide centralized/common tooling, services, and automation frameworks that are critical for scaling operations, capacity management
  • Reduce operational pain and improve the day-to-day workflow of Braze’s engineering teams by building automation into our IaaS platform

• Manage incidents:

  • Be on a PagerDuty rotation to respond to availability incidents and provide support for other engineers
  • Use your on-call shift to prevent incidents from ever happening
  • Retrospect everything that happens to turn lessons into system improvements/changes, automation, etc.

WHO YOU ARE

• 5+ years of full-stack development experience
• You think about systems - interfaces, boundaries, edge cases, failure modes, behaviors, and specific implementations

• Have an urge to collaborate, document, and deliver quickly

  • Collaborating across the global remote teams, often working asynchronously
  • Document everything so you don't need to learn the same thing (or plan the same work) twice
  • Delivering fast to delight our customers–even internal ones

• Have an enthusiastic, go-for-it attitude. When you see something broken, you can't help but fix it

• Have a desire to solve everyday challenges facing software engineers and automate their toil away

• Have an excellent ability to manage multiple tasks and expectations at once

• Experienced in working on large-scale API-driven systems

• Experienced in application and systems observability

• Experience in building/automating Kubernetes-based operators/custom resources

For candidates based in the United States, the pay range for this position at the start of employment is expected to be between $156,364 and $250,909/year with an expected On Target Earnings (OTE) between $172,000 and $276,000/year (including bonus or commission). Your exact offer may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. In addition to cash compensation, this role qualifies for a comprehensive Total Rewards package that includes equity grants of restricted stock (RSUs) so that you will own a piece of our company.