Senior Platform Software Engineer II @Braze

Overview

The Senior Platform Software Engineer II role at Braze involves building, maintaining, and evolving the internal infrastructure as a service platform. This position is integral to enhancing the reliability and automation of infrastructure across Braze's services, which support a massive scale with billions of active users.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineering teams to define and implement infrastructure as a service (IaaS) products.
• Enhance monitoring and alerting systems based on symptoms rather than just outages.
• Ensure adherence to strict enterprise-grade service level agreements (SLAs) with customers.
• Develop frameworks for large-scale distributed processing.
• Design and manage internal software frameworks powering asynchronous and background processing systems.
• Oversee the scaling behavior, reliability, and safety of processing systems.
• Develop automation frameworks critical for scaling operations and capacity management.
• Manage incidents and contribute to system improvements based on learnings.

Requirements

• 5+ years of full-stack development experience.
• Strong understanding of system interfaces, boundaries, and failure modes.
• A collaborative mindset and good documentation habits.
• Experience with large-scale API-driven systems and application observability.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes-based operators and custom resources.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and expectations simultaneously.
• A proactive, problem-solving attitude.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation including potential equity.
• Flexible paid time off and comprehensive health benefits.
• Retirement and employee stock purchase plans.
• Professional development opportunities and yearly learning stipend.
• Supportive community initiatives and employee resource groups.

Location

Remote role based in the United States.

How to Apply

Interested candidates can apply directly through the provided application link.