Position Details

Type Full-Time

Experience senior

Exp. Years 5+ years

Education Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related STEM field

Category DevOps & SRE

About this role

This position involves managing and improving Braze's high-scale data pipelines, ensuring system reliability and performance.

Key Responsibilities

Deploy and monitor live applications
Improve system reliability
Lead incident response
Set monitoring standards
Collaborate with platform teams

Technical Overview

The role covers Kafka-based event pipelines, Kubernetes or Docker deployment, and monitoring with tools like Sentry, Datadog, and PagerDuty.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a senior SRE with over 5 years of experience in deploying and managing distributed, high-scale systems. They excel in Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, and incident management, with a focus on reliability and observability.

Must-Have Skills

Using distributed systems to deploy and monitor live applications such as Kubernetes or Docker SwarmWorking with alerting software (SentryDatadogand/or PagerDuty)Utilizing programming languages (JavaKotlinand/or Ruby)

Nice-to-Have Skills

Experience with KafkaExperience with data export systemsExperience with high-scale systems

Tools & Platforms

KubernetesDockerSentryDatadogPagerDuty

Required Skills

KubernetesDockerKafkaMonitoringReliabilityObservabilityIncident responseDistributed systemsData streamingScalabilityJavaKotlinRuby

Hard Skills

KubernetesK8sDockerDocker SwarmMonitoring toolsSentryDatadogPagerDutyJavaKotlinRubyDistributed systemsData streamingKafkaEvent pipelineScalabilityReliabilityObservabilityIncident responseBlameless postmortems

Soft Skills

TeamworkCommunicationProblem-solvingAutonomyAccountabilityCollaborationAgile project leadership

Industry & Role

Industry SaaS

Job Function Maintain and enhance Braze's scalable data streaming systems

Keywords for Your Resume

Site Reliability EngineerSREKubernetesDockerKafkaEvent pipelineMonitoringReliabilityObservabilityIncident responseBlameless postmortemsDistributed systemsData streamingScalabilityJavaKotlinRuby

Deal Breakers

Less than 5 years of relevant experience, No experience with Kubernetes or Docker Swarm, Lack of experience with monitoring tools

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