Senior Software Engineer, Brex

• Significant experience in database modeling, operation, and administration with common open-source technologies such as PostgreSQL
• Significant experience in systems software development, preferably in DevOps
• 4+ years of experience working in AWS or equivalent cloud provider
• 2+ years of experience working with Kubernetes environments
• Experience working with at least one programming language (e.g. Golang, Java, Python)
• Strong communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills
• Must be willing to work in office 2 days per week on Wednesday and Thursday

Desirable

• Our team is responsible for building, maintaining, and monitoring the infrastructure platform which other teams use to build and operate Brex’s products
• We must also evangelize for, and educate other teams about, our infrastructure and best practices for running their services on top of it
• This includes working with our Cloud Provider to engineer the computing, data storage, and networking functionality for our customers and other critical cloud-based infrastructure components
• Work within and across Product Engineering teams to determine requirements and challenges to managing their data stores
• Leverage your expertise in databases along with your skills as a developer to write systems that mitigate or surface metrics around database problems
• Mentor database users on good modeling techniques and query practices on as-needed basis
• Perform or advise tactical solutions to challenges while maintaining service reliability
• Be part of an On-Call rotation for responding to incidents
• Operate core systems of Brex Infrastructure to ensure highest levels of reliability
• Work closely with other engineers to design, operate, and scale their systems
• Evangelize best practices both internally and externally