Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Currents

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: 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 WHO YOU ARE 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 For candidates based in the United States, the pay range for this position at the start of employment is expected to be between $129,600 and $232,200/year with an expected On Target Earnings (OTE) between $144,000 and $258,000/year (including bonus or commission). Your exact offer may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. In addition to cash compensation, Braze offers full- and part- time employees a comprehensive Total Rewards package that includes equity grants of restricted sto ... (truncated, view full listing at source)