Senior Software Engineer, Data Storage

Engineering at Brex

The Engineering team includes Data, IT, Security, and Software, and is responsible for building innovative products and infrastructure for both internal and external users. We have multiple autonomous and collaborative teams who are eager to learn, teach, and constantly improve how things work. Together, we strive to build robust and scalable systems that enable Brex to grow rapidly and help our customers reach their full potential.

What you’ll do

Our team is responsible for building, maintaining, and monitoring the infrastructure platform which other teams use to build and operate Brex’s products. We must also evangelize for, and educate other teams about, our infrastructure and best practices for running their services on top of it. This includes working with our Cloud Provider to engineer the computing, data storage, and networking functionality for our customers and other critical cloud-based infrastructure components.

As we are operating at the most foundational levels of Brex, our team’s work has a cascading effect on the entire company. We must always strive to look holistically at Brex’s architecture to uncover areas of optimization and reliability to drive efficiency.

Where you’ll work

This role will be based in our Seattle office. You must be willing to work in office at least 2 days per week on Wednesday and Thursday, starting the week of January 6th, 2025. Employees will be able to work remotely for up to 4 weeks per year, for a minimum of one week at a time.

Responsibilities

• Work within and across Product Engineering teams to determine requirements and challenges to managing their data stores
• Leverage your expertise in databases along with your skills as a developer to write systems that mitigate or surface metrics around database problems
• Mentor database users on good modeling techniques and query practices on as-needed basis
• Perform or advise tactical solutions to challenges while maintaining service reliability
• Be part of an On-Call rotation for responding to incidents
• Operate core systems of Brex Infrastructure to ensure highest levels of reliability
• Work closely with other engineers to design, operate, and scale their systems
• Evangelize best practices both internally and externally

Requirements

• Significant experience in database modeling, operation, and administration with common open-source technologies such as PostgreSQL
• Significant experience in systems software development, preferably in DevOps
• 4+ years of experience working in AWS or equivalent cloud provider
• 2+ years of experience working with Kubernetes environments
• Experience working with at least one programming language (e.g. Golang, Java, Python)
• Strong communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills
• Must be willing to work in office 2 days per week on Wednesday and Thursday

Bonus points

• Have an interest adjacent to issues such as compliance, confidentiality, and security
• Be capable of discussing thorny issues of concurrency and correctness

Compensation

The expected salary range for this role is $192,000 - $240,000. However, the starting base pay will depend on a number of factors including the candidate’s location, skills, experience, market demands, and internal pay parity. Depending on the position offered, equity and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package.