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    Senior Software Engineer - Chicago, United States - Braze

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    Description

    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

    The Ingestion team is responsible for ingesting and processing our customers' data at a massive scale—millions of requests per minute for billions of monthly active users We guarantee our customers' data is securely ingested, up to date, and available to power Braze's most exciting features.

    • Responsibilities:
      • Guide projects end-to-end, with autonomy to make and implement critical decisions which balance technical excellence and business value
      • Improve our best-in-class data ingestion pipeline, which operates at incredible scale
      • Optimize performance, cost, and customer experience
      • Own a complex backend system built to handle huge volumes of data
      • Push the boundaries on other innovative ways to get data into Braze
      • Delight customers by eliminating sources of data related friction
      • Improve our technical bar through code review, design discussions, and other interactions

    WHO YOU ARE

    • You have 5+ years of back-end-leaning full-stack development experience.
    • You are a self-starter. You take initiative, unblock yourself, and work proactively.
    • You have excellent verbal and written communication skills. You enjoy communicating complex ideas succinctly and expect the same from others.
    • You are obsessed with distributed systems, performance, and scale.
    • You write clean, performant, easily maintained code, and produce patterns others leverage.
    • You are enthusiastic about customer experience and business impact. Yet, you understand the balance between quality and speed.
    • You are passionate about your beliefs on designing and implementing systems (from architecting high-level architecture to writing code), but are open to changing them.

    Bonus:

    • You have professional experience with one of the listed: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, React, Sidekiq, Redis, MongoDB, microservices architecture
    • You have experience guiding complex projects with cross-functional stakeholders
    • You have experience with agile processes

    For candidates based in the United States, the pay range for this position at the start of employment is expected to be between $170,000 and $211,600/year with an expected On Target Earnings (OTE) between $180,000 and $230,000/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 stock (RSUs) so that all Braze employees own a piece of our company.

    WHAT WE OFFER

    From comprehensive benefits to remote availability to flexible time off, we've got you covered so you can prioritize work-life harmony.

    • Competitive compensation that includes equity
    • Retirement and Employee Stock Purchase Plans
    • Flexible paid time off
    • Comprehensive benefit plans covering medical, dental, vision, life, and disability
    • Family services that include fertility benefits and equal paid parental leave
    • Global presence, dog-friendly offices, and remote availability
    • Professional development supported by formal career pathing, learning platforms, and tuition reimbursement
    • Community engagement opportunities throughout the year, including an annual company wide Volunteerism Week
    • Employee Resource Groups that provide supportive communities within Braze
    • Collaborative, transparent, and fun culture recognized as a Great Place to Work

    Details of these benefit plans will be provided if a candidate receives an offer of employment. Benefits may vary by location.

    ABOUT BRAZE

    Braze (Nasdaq: BRZE) is a leading comprehensive customer engagement platform that powers interactions between consumers and brands they love. With Braze, global brands can ingest and process customer data in real time, orchestrate and optimize contextually relevant, cross-channel marketing campaigns and continuously evolve their customer engagement strategies.

    Braze is proudly certified as a Great Place to Work in the U.S., the UK and Singapore. We ranked #1 on Great Place to Work UK's 2023 Best Workplaces (Medium), #3 on Great Place to Work UK's 2023 Best Workplaces for Wellbeing (Medium), #19 on Fortune's 2022 Best Workplaces in New York (Large), and #5 on Fortune's 2022 Best Workplaces for Millennials in the US.

    You'll find many of us at headquarters in New York City or around the world in Austin, Berlin, Chicago, Jakarta, London, Paris, San Francisco, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo – not to mention our employees in nearly 50 remote locations.

    Please see ourCandidate Privacy Policyfor more information on how Braze processes your personal information during the recruitment process and, if applicable based on your location, how you can exercise any privacy rights.



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