Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Currents
Braze is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join the Currents team, responsible for developing and maintaining Currents, a high-scale data export system. This system is a robust Kafka-based event pipeline that processes tens of billions of messages daily, enabling customers to analyze user behavior in near real-time. The role involves collaborating with a skilled team to bring projects from concept to production and enhancing existing systems.
Key responsibilities include resolving live performance and reliability issues, writing and reviewing code to foster a culture of reliability, practicing sustainable incident response and conducting blameless postmortems, defining standards for monitoring and performance, bridging infrastructure and platform engineering teams, planning for scalability and reliability, and mentoring junior engineers in SRE best practices and agile project leadership.
Candidates should possess a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related STEM field, along with five years of experience in software or site reliability engineering. Required skills include deploying and monitoring applications using distributed systems like Kubernetes or Docker Swarm, working with alerting software such as Sentry, Datadog, or PagerDuty, proficiency in programming languages like Java, Kotlin, or Ruby, experience with relational and non-relational databases such as Postgres and MongoDB, familiarity with data streaming technologies like Kafka, Sidekiq, or SQS and SNS, and experience with continuous integration tools like Jenkins or Buildkite.
The compensation for this position ranges from $129,600 to $232,200 annually, with an expected On Target Earnings (OTE) between $144,000 and $258,000 per year, including bonuses or commissions. Braze offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes equity grants of restricted stock units (RSUs), retirement and employee stock purchase plans, flexible paid time off, comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverage, family services including fertility benefits and equal paid parental leave, professional development support through formal career pathing, learning platforms, and a yearly learning stipend, and a curated in-office experience designed to foster community and innovation.
Braze fosters a collaborative, transparent, and fun culture recognized as a Great Place to Work®. The company values high standards, teamwork, and work-life harmony, encouraging employees to act with autonomy, accountability, and openness to new perspectives. Braze supports professional growth through formal career pathing, learning platforms, and ongoing enablement to foster success. The company also offers opportunities to give back to the community, including an annual company-wide Volunteer Week and donation matching.