Position Details

Type Full-Time

Experience senior

Exp. Years 10+ years

Education Not specified

Category Cloud & Infrastructure

About this role

Senior Staff Platform Infrastructure Engineer at Braze will lead the infrastructure division in San Francisco, building scalable architectures and improving reliability and developer experience. You will collaborate across teams to drive long-term vision and deliver on massive-scale systems.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership in Infrastructure division
Design, build, and operate architecture at massive scale
Long term planning and buy-in
Cross-organization partnership
Own quality of architecture decisions

Technical Overview

Stack includes Ruby on Rails, Go, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka; focus on autoscaling, metrics pipelines, and distributed processing safety; leadership across multiple engineering teams.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a senior platform infrastructure engineer with 10+ years of distributed systems experience, a proven track record leading infra teams, and deep expertise with Braze's tech stack (Ruby on Rails, Go, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, Sidekiq). You should excel at creating long-term architectural visions and driving cross-team collaboration to deliver scalable infrastructure.

Must-Have Skills

10+ years of high scaled distributed systems development or platform/infrastructure experienceExperience leading infrastructure or infrastructure-adjacent teams (tech lead or manager)Ability to define visions for systems and gain buy-in

Tools & Platforms

Ruby on RailsGoMongoDBRedisKafkaSidekiq

Required Skills

10+ years of high scaled distributed systems development or platform/infrastructure experienceleadership in infrastructure or infrastructure-adjacent teams (tech lead or manager)ability to define visions for systems and gain buy-in

Hard Skills

Ruby on RailsRubyGoGolangMongoDBRedisKafkaSidekiqDistributed systemsAutoscalingMetrics pipelinesPSWEArchitectureInfrastructure designLeadership

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingownershipbias toward actioncross-functional partnership

Industry & Role

Industry SaaS

Job Function Lead and shape the infrastructure platform for massive-scale processing at Braze.

Role Subtype Platform Engineer

Keywords for Your Resume

Senior Staff Platform Infrastructure EngineerBrazeRuby on RailsRubyGoGolangMongoDBRedisKafkaSidekiqdistributed systemsinfrastructureautoscalingmetrics pipelinesPSWEleadershiparchitecturecross-organization partnership

Deal Breakers

10+ years distributed systems experience, Experience leading infrastructure teams

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