Senior Platform Software Engineer

Who you are

• 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
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, or SRE, with a strong record of writing production code (not only operating systems)
• Hands-on experience running stateful, distributed systems in production at scale
• Strong working knowledge of Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi) and comfort building on top of them
• Proficiency in at least one general-purpose language such as Go, Python, or Ruby. We care more about design judgment than language choice
• A systems mindset: you think about interfaces, failure modes, and edge cases, and you debug methodically when things break
• A strong problem-solving mindset and a track record of working with other teams to untangle complex engineering problems
• Clear written and verbal communication, and comfort collaborating across time zones
• A bias toward fixing what's broken instead of working around it
• Deep experience with Redis/Valkey, Elasticsearch, or similar systems, including performance tuning, replication, and failure handling
• Experience with OpenTelemetry and observability tools such as Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, or Datadog
• Experience with Kafka or other streaming systems
• Experience building developer-facing tooling or Kubernetes operators
• A thoughtful approach to using AI tools in your own engineering workflow
• We know that sometimes different circumstances can lead talented people to hesitate to apply for a role unless they meet 100% of the criteria. If this sounds familiar, we encourage you to apply, as we’d love to meet you

What the job involves

• 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 Braze sounds like a place where you can thrive, we can’t wait to meet you
• Braze is the leading customer engagement platform, helping brands build personalized messaging experiences across push, email, in-app, and more at massive scale
• Our technology stack is rooted in Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, Kubernetes and more
• The In-Memory Databases & Observability team provides the foundational infrastructure and tools that keep Braze fast, reliable, and observable
• Valkey sits at the heart of Braze: every message we send flows through it and our fleet serves around 36 million operations per second while holding terabytes of data in memory
• We operate Valkey, Memcached, and Elasticsearch, along with the observability stack (Prometheus, Thanos, and related tooling) that gives engineering teams visibility into their services
• These systems handle enormous volumes of traffic and have a direct impact on the reliability of the Braze platform
• As a Platform Software Engineer, you'll write code and run infrastructure at scale
• You'll build the automation, tooling, and services that make these systems reliable, efficient, and easy for other engineers to use
• Design, build, and operate Redis/Valkey, Memcached, Elasticsearch and Observability systems on Kubernetes with a focus on reliability, performance and cost efficiency at scale
• Write the software that manages these systems: Kubernetes operators, automation, CLIs, and self-serve tooling that replace manual operations
• Own and evolve Braze's observability platform, including metrics collection, long-term storage, alerting, and dashboards, so teams can detect and diagnose issues early
• Lead capacity planning, upgrades, and migrations for large, stateful systems with minimal customer impact
• Partner with engineering teams across Braze to improve how they use these systems, from data modeling and access patterns to query performance and monitoring
• Investigate complex production issues across the stack and turn what you learn into durable fixes and better tooling
• Contribute to the team's on-call rotation and help improve runbooks and write tooling that would help incident response
• Document your designs and decisions clearly for a global team

Benefits

• Flexible Vacation Policy: Take the time you need to balance your work and life in the way that suits you best
• Equal Paid Family Services: We offer fertility benefits along with equal paid parental leave, so you can focus your energy on your growing family
• Retirement Planning: We support you as you plan for your future. Braze will begin matching contributions into our retirement plan on your first day of employment
• Talent Development: We support your professional growth through formal career pathing, learning platforms, and our Global Learning Stipend
• Global Presence: Our global presence—15 cities and growing—provides opportunities to work and connect with top talent around the world
• ESPP: We offer an Employee Stock Purchasing Plan to all employees globally.