Senior Software Engineer II, Data Lakehouse

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

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to grow our Data Lakehouse team’s capacity for impact. The Data Lakehouse team provides the foundational infrastructure and tools that enable teams across the company to store, query, and analyze data at petabyte scale. This includes managing an incredible amount of event data across data platforms like Snowflake, ClickHouse, and Databricks: tens of billions of rows are inserted daily, shared with internal teams, and shared with external customers.

WHO YOU ARE

• 6+ years of full-stack development experience, with a strong focus on building scalable web applications. While our primary focus is on the back-end, we own our features end-to-end and regularly deliver front-end experiences
• Experienced building automated data pipeline, asynchronous processing, or ETL applications using tools like Kafka, Airflow, Sidekiq, SQS, and RabbitMQ
• Experienced technical leader with a track record of driving architectural decisions and contributing to technical strategy
• Strong understanding of design, data structures, and algorithms
• A self-starter with great communication and organizational skills who has worked in an agile team environment before
• Willingness to learn the technologies required to deliver what customers need

Bonus points

• Professional experience building software at scale, handling high volumes of data and traffic
• Professional experience with Ruby on Rails, Python, React, Snowflake, microservice architecture, and distributed systems
• Familiarity with modern data warehousing, BI, and analytics
• Experience with agile processes
• A passion for incrementally delivering high-quality software which delights custom