Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Currents

Braze

Austin, United States
Base: $129,600 - $232,200pyear; bonus/equity: $144...
On-site
Kubernetes or docker swarm
Kafka, sidekiq or sqs/sns
Java, kotlin, or ruby
The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will be responsible for building, maintaining, and evolving Currents, a robust Kafka-based event pipeline handling tens of billions of messages daily

Job Summary

  • The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will be responsible for building, maintaining, and evolving Currents, a robust Kafka-based event pipeline handling tens of billions of messages daily.
  • Key responsibilities include solving live performance and reliability issues, writing and reviewing code, and guiding junior engineers in SRE best practices.
  • Braze offers a comprehensive Total Rewards package including equity grants, competitive compensation, flexible paid time off, and professional development support.

Matching Summary

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will be responsible for building, maintaining, and evolving Currents, a robust Kafka-based event pipeline handling tens of billions of messages daily.

Salary

Base: $129,600 - $232,200/year; Bonus/Equity: $144,000 - $258,000/year OTE; Benefits: Comprehensive package including equity

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Kubernetes or Docker Swarm
  • Kafka, Sidekiq or SQS/SNS
  • Java, Kotlin, or Ruby
  • Postgres and MongoDb
  • Sentry, Datadog, or PagerDuty
  • Jenkins or Buildkite
  • GitHub or GitLab

Nice-to-have

  • Accountability and autonomy
  • Open to new perspectives
  • Bias toward action
  • Eagerness to share passions
  • Sustainable incident response

Key Requirements

  • 5 years of software engineering or SRE experience
  • Bachelor's in Computer Science or related STEM field

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