Senior Software Engineer, Data Lake at Braze
WHO WE ARE
Braze delivers customer experiences across email, mobile, SMS, and web. Customers, including Burger King, Delivery Hero, HBO Max, Mercari, 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, hundreds of billions of messages are sent to a network of over 3 billion active users through Braze.
Need more proof? Braze was named a Leader in the Forrester Wave™: Cross-Channel Campaign Management (Independent Platforms), Q3 2021, and was named to the Forbes Cloud 100 list for the fourth consecutive year. The company has also been selected as one of Fortune’s Best Workplace for Millennials in 2021, and was ranked #20 on Fortune’s Best Medium Sized Workplaces in 2021. Braze is certified as a Great Place to Work in the UK and the U.S. and is recognized as one of the UK's Best Workplaces for Women.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer for our Data Lake team. The Datalake team manages the massive amount of event data we store in our almost 2+ petabyte data warehouse in Snowflake, how it is organized/streamed/replicated, and how it is accessed. Tens of billions of messages are inserted daily that are then shared to internal customers for reports and services and also to external customers through Snowflake's secure data sharing. We build various Python and Java tools and services to facilitate and automate multi-region, multi-platform configuration deployments, and schema changes.
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 building highly available/scalable services and solutions with Python (or similar)
- Experience building automated data pipeline (or ETL) applications using tools like Kakfa, SQS, RabbitMQ, etc on top of cloud-based infrastructure (AWS, Azure)
- Familiar with modern data warehousing/BI/analytics
- 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. A self-starter inspired to perform without structured guidance.
- Experience with agile processes and tools such as JIRA
- Beneficial experiences: Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, Java, Ruby, Redis, Snowflake, Kubernetes, Docker, Postgres
WHAT WE OFFER
- Competitive compensation that includes equity
- Generous time off policy to balance your work and life, including paid parental leave
- Competitive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
- Collaborative, transparent, and fun loving office culture
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