Senior Platform Software Engineer, Braze
$180-215k
OTE
$160-200k
BASE
+ RSUs
Customer engagement platform
Job no longer available
Customer engagement platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$180-215k
OTE
$160-200k
BASE
+ RSUs
1001+ employees
Company mission
To power lasting connections between consumers and brands they love.
Role
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 system
- Experienced in application and systems observability
- Experience in building/automating Kubernetes-based operators/custom resources
What the job involves
- 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 automation infrastructure reliability
- 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
- 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 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
Our take
Braze was founded out of an opportunity to build a company in the mobile space, inspired by the success of Android. This decision was driven by the belief that technology can help build stronger and more valuable relationships between brands and customers. It is now a leading customer engagement platform that powers connections between consumers and the brands they love.
Braze does this by delivering messaging experiences through push notifications, apps, and emails, built specifically for today's always-connected customers. This replaces badly integrated tools and outdated databases, making customer relationships more personalised through cross-channel messaging, journey orchestration and AI-powered experimentation and optimisation. Through this, Braze allows any marketer to collect and take action on any amount of data from any source, so they can creatively engage with customers in real time, across channels from one platform.
As a venture-backed company, its clients now include Headspace, Canva, Max, Headspace, Domino's, Peloton and Depop. These clients use Braze to launch more effective messaging campaigns with less effort in the current mobile-first world. No doubt it's placement on the 2024 US News Best Technology Companies To Work For list will draw in more talent, whilst its growth to 10 new offices across North America, APAC regions and Europe indicates promising growth.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Oct 2018
$80m
SERIES E
Aug 2017
$50m
SERIES D
Total funding: $182.7m
Company benefits
- Flexible Vacation Policy: Take the time you need to balance your work and life in the way that suits you best
- Equal Paid Family Services: We offer fertility benefits along with equal paid parental leave, so you can focus your energy on your growing family
- Retirement Planning: We support you as you plan for your future. Braze will begin matching contributions into our retirement plan on your first day of employment
- Talent Development: We support your professional growth through formal career pathing, learning platforms, and our Global Learning Stipend
- Global Presence: Our global presence—15 cities and growing—provides opportunities to work and connect with top talent around the world
- ESPP: We offer an Employee Stock Purchasing Plan to all employees globally.
Company values
- Take Your Seat at the Table: Our community welcomes and respects your unique talents and perspective. Roll up your sleeves and join in - we’re building Braze together
- Don't Ignore Smoke: With constant vigilance, we help each other notice issues before smoke turns to fire. When others come to us, we celebrate the messenger and assist them however we can
- Shape the Future: We believe in the positive trajectory of change. We make investments, take calculated risks, and guide others down the path of our vision for the future
- Embrace Curiosity: We are explorers of details and new horizons. We embrace a growth mindset and pursue our curiosities to acquire new mastery and hone existing skills
- Be a Human: Each of us contributes to the Braze culture through our individuality. We operate with integrity, and above all else, we are kind
- Seek the Truth: We combine intelligence with humility to challenge assumptions and ask thoughtful questions. We make better decisions by deeply understanding our world
Company HQ
NoMad, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
Bill Magnuson
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously a Software Engineer at Google and Bridgewater Associates before co-founding Braze in 2011.
Jon Hyman
(Co-Founder & CTO)After graduating cum laude in Computer Science at Harvard, Jon joined Bridgewater Associates' Core Technology department and worked on the Forbes Technology Council before co-founding Braze.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Braze
Mel Windley (Director of Global Inclusion and Opportunity)
- Braze takes an inclusion-first approach and holds the philosophy that Global Inclusion and Opportunity must be built into business processes in order to have lasting and meaningful impact. The future we want to shape is one where people from diverse backgrounds and experiences can thrive and have meaningful careers at Braze.
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