Staff Systems Engineer, US

Branch Metrics•Austin, TX

2d•$169,000 - $215,000•Hybrid

About The Position

At Branch, we’re transforming how brands and users interact across digital platforms. Our mobile marketing and deep linking solutions are trusted to deliver seamless experiences that increase ROI, decrease wasted spend, and eliminate siloed attribution. Our Branch team consists of smart, humble, and collaborative people who value ownership over all. Everything we do is centered around creating a great product, team, and company that lives and breathes our motto: Build Together, Grow Together, Win Together. As a Staff Systems Engineer, you will lead our platform infrastructure team in building and maintaining the services that power mobile experiences for top companies worldwide. We process billions of API transactions daily and are growing rapidly. We seek a passionate and experienced leader to drive the evolution of our platform infrastructure within a large, complex public cloud environment. If you thrive on solving challenging problems at scale and mentoring teams to deliver exceptional results, we need your expertise! As a Staff Systems Engineer you’ll get to: Define and drive the strategic vision and roadmap for platform infrastructure. Lead and drive major platform stability projects by identifying opportunities with significant ROI. Collaborate closely with technical leadership to plan, execute, and deliver measurable improvements across the infrastructure landscape. Architect and implement complex systems that enhance reliability, automation, operability, and performance at scale. Work collaboratively with product engineering teams, security teams and data engineering teams to refine requirements and ensure alignment with business goals. Tackle challenging technical problems head-on, providing solutions that maintain system integrity under pressure. Lead debugging efforts for critical issues and develop robust strategies to prevent future occurrences. Mentor junior engineers and specialists, fostering a culture of continuous learning and development. Contribute to team growth by sharing your expertise and encouraging innovation. Conduct thorough audits of infrastructure costs to identify opportunities for waste reduction. Implement strategies that enhance efficiency without compromising performance or security. Stay abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends. Be prepared to adapt quickly, learning new languages or platforms as needed to meet evolving project requirements. If this does not intimidate you, and you're eager to dive in and get the job done you will be right at home.

Requirements

Must have Linux, AWS, Kafka, Python/Java/Golang & Terraform.
Extensive Industry Experience (8+ years): Proven track record in managing production Linux systems within large-scale cloud environments.
Leadership and Ownership: Demonstrated ability to lead projects from conception through delivery, ensuring ownership of features and systems with a results-driven approach. High attention to detail and a strong desire for continuous improvement.
Distributed Systems Architecture: Strong experience in architecture and administration of large-scale distributed systems (e.g., Aerospike, Kafka, FoundationDB, StarRocks, and Elasticsearch) and high-volume web deployments on frameworks like nginx, Node.js, JVM.
Observability and Monitoring Systems: Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK stack, or similar systems to ensure comprehensive infrastructure monitoring and alerting.
Cloud Infrastructure Expertise: Strong experience with AWS services (EC2, RDS, DynamoDB, ELBs, etc.) and designing scalable cloud infrastructure solutions. Familiarity with other major cloud providers is a plus.
Configuration Management: Proficiency with modern configuration management tools such as Terraform, SaltStack, Ansible, Packer, etc., to automate infrastructure deployment and management.
OSS Database Management: Strong expertise in operating open-source databases on AWS, including Postgres, MySQL, Redis, etc.
Developer Operations Management: Experience with scalable CI/CD pipelines and polyglot environments using GitOps practices and Github Actions.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with container management and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes
Familiarity with Big Data frameworks and data pipeline management.
Familiarity with large monorepo environments and build tools such as Bazel.
Familiarity with foundational AI/ML infrastructure building blocks such as AWS Bedrock, AWS SageMaker, etc.
Strong experience operating Java and JVM-based systems.
Strong experience with network design and DNS infrastructure.

Responsibilities

Define and drive the strategic vision and roadmap for platform infrastructure.
Lead and drive major platform stability projects by identifying opportunities with significant ROI.
Collaborate closely with technical leadership to plan, execute, and deliver measurable improvements across the infrastructure landscape.
Architect and implement complex systems that enhance reliability, automation, operability, and performance at scale.
Work collaboratively with product engineering teams, security teams and data engineering teams to refine requirements and ensure alignment with business goals.
Tackle challenging technical problems head-on, providing solutions that maintain system integrity under pressure.
Lead debugging efforts for critical issues and develop robust strategies to prevent future occurrences.
Mentor junior engineers and specialists, fostering a culture of continuous learning and development.
Contribute to team growth by sharing your expertise and encouraging innovation.
Conduct thorough audits of infrastructure costs to identify opportunities for waste reduction.
Implement strategies that enhance efficiency without compromising performance or security.
Stay abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends.
Be prepared to adapt quickly, learning new languages or platforms as needed to meet evolving project requirements.