Remote Senior Platform Software Engineer

Description:

• Braze is seeking a Senior Platform Software Engineer to build, maintain, and evolve their internal infrastructure as a service platform.
• The role involves applying sound engineering principles, operational discipline, and mature automation to infrastructure services.
• Responsibilities include partnering with engineering teams to define and implement IaaS products, developing Braze’s internal IaaS platform, and managing incidents.
• The engineer will work on improving automation infrastructure reliability and empowering other engineering teams to leverage the infrastructure products created.
• The technology stack includes Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, and Kubernetes.
• The position requires being on a PagerDuty rotation to respond to availability incidents and to prevent future incidents through retrospection.

Requirements:

• Candidates must have 5+ years of full-stack development experience.
• A strong understanding of systems, including interfaces, boundaries, edge cases, and failure modes is essential.
• The ability to collaborate, document, and deliver quickly is required.
• Experience in working with large-scale API-driven systems and application observability is necessary.
• Candidates should have experience in building and automating Kubernetes-based operators/custom resources.
• A proactive attitude towards fixing issues and a desire to automate challenges faced by software engineers is expected.
• Excellent multitasking and expectation management skills are required.

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation that may include equity grants of restricted stock (RSUs).
• Retirement and Employee Stock Purchase Plans are offered.
• Flexible paid time off is available to support work-life harmony.
• Comprehensive benefit plans covering medical, dental, vision, life, and disability are provided.
• Family services include fertility benefits and equal paid parental leave.
• Professional development is supported through formal career pathing, learning platforms, and tuition reimbursement.
• Opportunities for community engagement, including an annual company-wide Volunteer Week, are available.
• A collaborative, transparent, and fun culture recognized as a Great Place to Work® is fostered.