Senior Software Engineer I
About The Position
We're looking for a Senior Software 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 past experiences, your skills, and a strong sense of teamwork to tackle the significant engineering challenges of running a critical data streaming system.
Requirements
- 5+ years of full-stack development experience
- Experience building foundational systems at scale and spearheading software projects that significantly advanced the goals of your organization
- Leads by example. Excellent at mentoring engineers. Makes your colleagues better
- Self-starter with great communication and organizational skills and experience working in a highly collaborative team environment
- Experience with Kafka at scale, or comparable technology
- Professional experience working with distributed systems and/or microservices
Nice To Haves
- Java
- Kotlin
- Confluent
- React
Responsibilities
- Building, maintaining, and evolving Currents, our data export system at scale.
- Bringing projects from concept to production.
- Improving existing high-scale systems.
- Tackling significant engineering challenges of running a critical data streaming system.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation that may include equity
- Equity grants of restricted stock (RSUs)
- Retirement and Employee Stock Purchase Plans
- Flexible paid time off
- Comprehensive benefit plans covering medical, dental, vision, life, and disability
- Fertility benefits
- 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
