Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Currents
About The Position
At Braze, we have found our people. We're a genuinely approachable, exceptionally kind, and intensely passionate crew. We seek to ignite that passion by setting high standards, championing teamwork, and creating work-life harmony as we collectively navigate rapid growth on a global scale while striving for greater equity and opportunity - inside and outside our organization. To flourish here, you must be prepared to set a high bar for yourself and those around you. There is always a way to contribute: Acting with autonomy, having accountability and being open to new perspectives are essential to our continued success. Our deep curiosity to learn and our eagerness to share diverse passions with others gives us balance and injects a one-of-a-kind vibrancy into our culture. If you are driven to solve exhilarating challenges and have a bias toward action in the face of change, you will be empowered to make a real impact here, with a sharp and passionate team at your back. If Braze sounds like a place where you can thrive, we can't wait to meet you. WHAT YOU'LL DO We're looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for our Currents team, responsible for building, maintaining, and evolving Currents, our data export system at scale. The Currents system is a robust Kafka-based event pipeline handling tens of billions of messages daily that our customers leverage to analyze user behavior in near real-time. You'll be a key engineer on a highly collaborative and skilled team, responsible for bringing projects from concept to production and improving our existing high-scale systems. You will be leveraging your experience, your skills, and a strong sense of teamwork to tackle the significant engineering challenges of running a critical data streaming system. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will specifically focus on the observability, scalability, and reliability strategy aspects of every project. Specific examples of what this translates to:
Requirements
- Bachelor's in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related STEM field
- Five (5) years of experience in any role/occupation/position involving software engineering or site reliability engineering
- Experience must include: Using distributed systems to deploy and monitor live applications such as Kubernetes or Docker Swarm
- Working with alerting software (Sentry, Datadog, and/or PagerDuty)
- Utilizing programming languages (Java, Kotlin, and/or Ruby) to understand and contribute to the codebase
- Storing data in relational and non-relational databases such as Postgres and MongoDb
- Data streaming or queuing systems to build data pipelines with technologies like Kafka, Sidekiq or SQS and SNS
- Leveraging continuous integration tools such as Jenkins or Buildkite
- Collaborating with engineers through pull requests and code reviews in version control software such as GitHub or GitLab
Responsibilities
- Solve live performance and reliability issues and prevent their recurrence
- Write and review code, educating engineers and building a culture of reliability
- Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems
- Define and enable standards for monitoring, reliability, and performance
- Bridge the gap between infrastructure and platform engineering teams
- Support and improve services by planning for scale and reliability
- Guide junior engineers in SRE best practices, software engineering, and agile project leadership
Benefits
- Competitive compensation that may include equity
- Retirement and Employee Stock Purchase Plans
- Flexible paid time off
- Comprehensive benefit plans covering medical, dental, vision, life, and disability
- Family services that include fertility benefits and equal paid parental leave
- Professional development supported by formal career pathing, learning platforms, and a yearly learning stipend
- A curated in-office employee experience, designed to foster community, team connections, and innovation
- Opportunities to give back to your community, including an annual company-wide Volunteer Week and donation matching
- Employee Resource Groups that provide supportive communities within Braze
- Collaborative, transparent, and fun culture recognized as a Great Place to Work®
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
