Senior Software Engineer, Brex
Release Infrastructure
$192-240k
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
Intelligent finance platform
Posted today
Intelligent finance platform
1001+ employees
Posted today
$192-240k
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower employees anywhere to make better financial decisions.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of professional experience designing, building, and operating backend or infrastructure systems in production
- Strong proficiency in backend programming languages (e.g., Go, Java, Kotlin, or Python) with a focus on reliability and performance
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD and release pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Buildkite, Argo, Spinnaker, Jenkins) including build, test, and deployment automation
- Experience architecting and operating scalable, high-availability distributed systems on cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Deep familiarity with containerization and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Experience designing and maintaining observability tooling (metrics, logs, tracing) and integrating it into incident response workflows
- Strong understanding of reliability and SRE practices, including SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and incident management best practices
- Experience designing and optimizing data storage systems (SQL and/or NoSQL) for operational and observability use cases
- Proven track record of improving release processes (e.g., reducing deployment risk, increasing deployment frequency, automating rollbacks)
- Comfort working cross-functionally with product and other engineering teams to debug complex production issues and ship changes safely
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, including writing clear design docs and driving technical decisions across teams
What the job involves
- Engineering at Brex is about building systems that scale with speed and intention
- Our teams span Software, Data, Security, and IT, and operate with high autonomy and deep collaboration
- We tackle hard technical problems, own our outcomes, and push for excellence at every level — from architecture to deployment
- It’s an environment where engineering is a craft, and builders become leaders
- As a Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Release Engineering) at Brex, you will design, build, and operate the core systems that power Brex’s release, observability, and incident management processes
- You will partner closely with product, platform, and operations teams to ensure releases are safe, fast, and reliable, and that our infrastructure scales securely as Brex grows
- Design, build, and maintain the release infrastructure that powers Brex’s deployment pipelines and incident workflows
- Drive technical strategy and architecture for release and observability systems, making them more scalable, reliable, and secure
- Collaborate with product, engineering, and operations partners to ensure Brex’s releases are safe, predictable, and low-friction
- Identify and deliver improvements to the end-to-end release process (from code merge to production) to reduce risk and cycle time
- Build and evolve tooling for observability and incident response, enabling fast detection, triage, and resolution
- Proactively identify and mitigate risks in our release and infrastructure stack, including performance, reliability, and security concerns
- Define, instrument, and monitor key metrics for release engineering (e.g., deployment frequency, change failure rate, MTTR) and use them to guide improvements
- Partner with other infrastructure and product teams to debug complex production issues and drive long-term fixes
- Contribute to and champion best practices in release engineering, reliability, and operational excellence across the organization
- Mentor other engineers on the team, providing technical guidance and code reviews to elevate the overall quality of our infrastructure
- Stay up-to-date on emerging tools and practices in release engineering, observability, and SRE, and bring relevant ideas into Brex’s stack
Our take
Brex started its life providing corporate credit cards aimed mainly at startups and SMBs. Since then, it has gradually evolved its model towards becoming a one-stop finance shop for companies. It has also adapted to serve a much wider range of businesses, from startups to enterprises.
As the largest modern corporate card platform, Brex serves over 20,000 businesses globally, and is responsible for the processing of tens of billions of dollars in transactions. It has raised significant capital and reached a peak valuation of $12.3 billion in 2022.
With the landscape of companies clamouring to meet financial needs increasing by the day, Brex is well set to see continued growth. In 2026 it was announced that Capital One will be purchasing the company in order to pursue its ambition to “build a payments company at the frontier of the technology revolution.”
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Oct 2021
$300m
SERIES D
Apr 2021
$425m
SERIES D
Total funding: $1.1bn
Company benefits
- Medical, dental & vision
- Spring Health & Calm
- Generous vacation
- Year-end company shutdown
- Generous parental leave
- Carrot Fertility benefits
- Milk Stork for nursing parents
- In-office days, lunches & offsites
- Commuter benefits
- 4 fully remote weeks
Company HQ
Nob Hill, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Henrique Dubugras
(Chair & Founder)After a degree at Stanford, Henrique worked as a Developer at Cronus Emulator, Ingresse, and Views for a combined 2 years. He founded Estudar nos EUA, EduqueMe, and Pagar.me before leveraging this startup experience to co-found Brex in March 2017.
Pedro Franceschi
(CEO & Founder)After a degree at Stanford, Pedro worked as a Software Engineer before founding Pager.me, an online payments company. He left the company in 2017 to co-found Brex.
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