Senior Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure
WHO WE ARE
Braze delivers customer experiences across email, mobile, SMS, and web. Customers, including Seamless, HBO, Disney, Urban Outfitters, and Venmo, use the Braze platform to facilitate real-time experiences between brands and consumers in a more authentic and human way. And we do it at scale – each month, tens of billions of messages are sent to a network of over 2 billion active users through Braze.
Need more proof? Braze was named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Mobile Marketing Platforms in 2019. The company has also been named on the Forbes Cloud 100, Inc. Magazine’s 2019 Best Places to Work, and Crain's 2019 Best Places to Work in NYC lists.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
We're looking for a Senior Engineer for our Data Infrastructure team. The Data Infrastructure (DI) team builds and maintains a robust Kafka based event pipeline streaming tens of billions of messages daily that our customers leverage to analyze user behavior in near real time. You will help us architect, build, and optimize new, massively scaled data processing solutions storing petabytes of event data in Snowflake, as well as in various cloud storage destinations like Amazon S3 and web analytics platforms like Amplitude!
WHO YOU ARE
- 6+ years of relevant experience with a strong track record of success
- Have strong and good opinions about how code should be written, as well as good development practices
- Experience with Java and some data pipeline job processing or message queuing system, like Kakfa, SQS, or RabbitMQ, etc, for the core work
- Excellent communication skills and a user-centric attitude
- Calm, patient, considerate, compassionate, supportive, and encouraging
- Strong organizational skills and ability to keep track of multiple streams of work at once
- Experience with agile processes and tools such as JIRA
- Beneficial experiences: Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, Ruby, Python, Redis, Snowflake, Kubernetes, Docker, Postgres
WHAT WE OFFER
- Competitive compensation that includes equity
- Flexible time off policy to balance your work and life, including paid parental leave
- Free daily lunch in the office, including snacks and beverages
- Competitive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
- Collaborative, transparent, and fun loving office culture
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