Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Currents

<div class="content-intro"><p>At Braze, we have found our people. We’re a genuinely approachable, exceptionally kind, and intensely passionate crew.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p></div><p><strong>WHAT YOU'LL DO</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Specific examples of what this translates to:</p> <ul> <li>Solve live performance and reliability issues and prevent their recurrence</li> <li>Write and review code, educating engineers and building a culture of reliability</li> <li>Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems</li> <li>Define and enable standards for monitoring, reliability, and performance</li> <li>Bridge the gap between infrastructure and platform engineering teams</li> <li>Support and improve services by planning for scale and reliability</li> <li>Guide junior engineers in SRE best practices, software engineering, and agile project leadership</li> </ul> <p><strong>WHO YOU ARE</strong></p> <ul> <li>Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related STEM field</li> <li>Five (5) years of experience in any role/occupation/position involving software engineering or site reliability engineering</li> <li>Experience must include:</li> <ul> <li>Using distributed systems to deploy and monitor live applications such as Kubernetes or Docker Swarm</li> <li>Working with alerting software (Sentry, Datadog, and/or PagerDuty)</li> <li>Utilizing programming languages (Java, Kotlin, and/or Ruby) to understand and contribute to the codebase</li> <li>Storing data in relational and non-relational databases such as Postgres and MongoDb</li> <li>Data streaming or queuing systems to build data pipelines with technologies like Kafka, Sidekiq or SQS and SNS</li> <li>Leveraging continuous integration tools such as Jenkins or Buildkite</li> <li>Collaborating with engineers through pull requests and code reviews in version control software such as GitHub or GitLab</li> </ul> </ul> <p>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 exac ... (truncated, view full listing at source)