The opportunity
At Braze, we have found our people. We’re a genuinely approachable, exceptionally kind, and intensely passionate crew.
What you'll do
Build, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of streaming platform and: reliability engineers while fostering an inclusive, collaborative culture.
Treat the streaming platform as a product by defining capabilities based on: consumer needs, and driving adoption via self-service, "paved-road" interfaces.
Engage internal engineering consumers to gather requirements, prioritize: initiatives by business impact, and align roadmaps with the broader Data Platforms vision.
Provide technical guidance on architecture, scalability, and system design: across the Kafka stack, connector frameworks, and stream-processing engines.
Champion automation, observability, infrastructure-as-code, secure design,: and strict data governance (schemas, retention, and SLAs).
Partner with SRE leadership to align platform reliability with SLOs,: collaborate on proactive monitoring, and foster operational excellence.
What they're looking for
- + years of increasing responsibility in platform engineering or: infrastructure, including experience managing and mentoring engineering teams.
- A strong track record of owning and delivering infrastructure services that drive significant business value.
- Strong working knowledge of distributed, event-driven systems like Kafka: (Connect/Streams) and Apache Flink to effectively guide architectural and reliability trade-offs.
- Hands-on experience building and scaling internal platforms using cloud: infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), and CI/CD pipelines.
- Exceptional relationship-building skills to align engineering teams,: leadership, SREs, and internal consumers toward shared operational goals.
- Passionate about reducing cognitive load for internal developers and building: high-value, self-service streaming services.
- High level of accountability for reliability, paired with a forward-thinking: drive to continuously improve platform capabilities and developer experience.
- Competitive compensation that may include equity
