Software Engineer, Brex

• You have experience in database modeling, operation, and administration with common open-source technologies such as PostgreSQL
• 2+ years of experience working in AWS or equivalent cloud provider
• 1+ year 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

Desirable

• The Engineering team includes Data, IT, Security, and Software, and is responsible for building innovative products and infrastructure for both internal and external users
• We have multiple autonomous and collaborative teams who are eager to learn, teach, and constantly improve how things work
• Together, we strive to build robust and scalable systems that enable Brex to grow rapidly and help our customers reach their full potential
• 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 our working with our Cloud Provider to engineer the compute, data storage and networking functionality for our customers and other critical cloud based infrastructure components
• As we’re operating at the most foundational levels of Brex, our team’s work has a cascading effect on the entire company
• We must always strive to look holistically at Brex’s architecture to uncover areas of optimization, reliability, and drive efficiency
• 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