Brex
Senior Platform Engineer, GraphQL, Application Infrastructure
Brex, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
Why join us
Brex is the AI-powered spend platform. We help companies spend with confidence with integrated corporate cards, banking, and global payments, plus intuitive software for travel and expenses. Tens of thousands of companies from startups to enterprises - including DoorDash, Flexport, and Compass - use Brex to proactively control spend, reduce costs, and increase efficiency on a global scale.
Working at Brex allows you to push your limits, challenge the status quo, and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry. We're committed to building a diverse team and inclusive culture and believe your potential should only be limited by how big you can dream. We make this a reality by empowering you with the tools, resources, and support you need to grow your career.
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
The Application Infrastructure team sits in the Infrastructure group alongside Release Infrastructure and Cloud Infrastructure. We simplify writing code for every product developer at Brex.
As an engineer on the Application Infrastructure team, you will build and own a suite of platforms and tools that Product Engineers use to deliver quality software solutions quickly. You will have the opportunity to work with a diverse range of technologies enabling federated GraphQL APIs, remote development environments, pre-merge testing, Brex-wide dependency management, fast Kotlin builds, developer CLIs, and more.
You will be a domain expert and change agent taking our Federated GraphQL platform to the next level. You'll see the big picture of how Brex developers use GraphQL to build products, and utilize GraphQL's open source and vendor ecosystem to enable Brex devs to ship better products faster.
You will need to be comfortable regularly working on complex systems across multiple programming languages and levels of abstraction. You will have the opportunity to learn and push the frontier of providing the best financial software experience to help companies grow. You will be encouraged to be metric and data-driven and to think creatively to help Brex scale into new markets and verticals.
Where you'll work
This role will be based in our San Francisco 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.
ResponsibilitiesDesign and build robust platforms and tools to accelerate Brex product developmentOwn and maintain critical API infrastructure serving hundreds of requests per secondIdentify and implement reliability and performance improvements in our backend stackUphold our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the codebases, infrastructure, and processes you will encounterRequirements
5+ years of professional experience in a software engineering roleGraphQL experience, especially familiarity with Federated GraphQLKotlin background (Java and Scala are also acceptable)Kubernetes familiarityPlatform or Full-Stack development backgroundStrong communication, interpersonal, and project planning skillsMust be willing to work in office 2 days per week on Wednesday and ThursdayBonus points
Experience working with Bazel; bonus points if you've written rules or maintained Bazel as a platformExtensive experience with other multi-language build systemsGolang experience, especially building CLIsExperience extending IDEs
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.
Please be aware, job-seekers may be at risk of targeting by malicious actors looking for personal data. Brex recruiters will only reach out via LinkedIn or email with a brex.com domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Brex via other sources should be ignored.
Brex is the AI-powered spend platform. We help companies spend with confidence with integrated corporate cards, banking, and global payments, plus intuitive software for travel and expenses. Tens of thousands of companies from startups to enterprises - including DoorDash, Flexport, and Compass - use Brex to proactively control spend, reduce costs, and increase efficiency on a global scale.
Working at Brex allows you to push your limits, challenge the status quo, and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry. We're committed to building a diverse team and inclusive culture and believe your potential should only be limited by how big you can dream. We make this a reality by empowering you with the tools, resources, and support you need to grow your career.
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
The Application Infrastructure team sits in the Infrastructure group alongside Release Infrastructure and Cloud Infrastructure. We simplify writing code for every product developer at Brex.
As an engineer on the Application Infrastructure team, you will build and own a suite of platforms and tools that Product Engineers use to deliver quality software solutions quickly. You will have the opportunity to work with a diverse range of technologies enabling federated GraphQL APIs, remote development environments, pre-merge testing, Brex-wide dependency management, fast Kotlin builds, developer CLIs, and more.
You will be a domain expert and change agent taking our Federated GraphQL platform to the next level. You'll see the big picture of how Brex developers use GraphQL to build products, and utilize GraphQL's open source and vendor ecosystem to enable Brex devs to ship better products faster.
You will need to be comfortable regularly working on complex systems across multiple programming languages and levels of abstraction. You will have the opportunity to learn and push the frontier of providing the best financial software experience to help companies grow. You will be encouraged to be metric and data-driven and to think creatively to help Brex scale into new markets and verticals.
Where you'll work
This role will be based in our San Francisco 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.
ResponsibilitiesDesign and build robust platforms and tools to accelerate Brex product developmentOwn and maintain critical API infrastructure serving hundreds of requests per secondIdentify and implement reliability and performance improvements in our backend stackUphold our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the codebases, infrastructure, and processes you will encounterRequirements
5+ years of professional experience in a software engineering roleGraphQL experience, especially familiarity with Federated GraphQLKotlin background (Java and Scala are also acceptable)Kubernetes familiarityPlatform or Full-Stack development backgroundStrong communication, interpersonal, and project planning skillsMust be willing to work in office 2 days per week on Wednesday and ThursdayBonus points
Experience working with Bazel; bonus points if you've written rules or maintained Bazel as a platformExtensive experience with other multi-language build systemsGolang experience, especially building CLIsExperience extending IDEs
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.
Please be aware, job-seekers may be at risk of targeting by malicious actors looking for personal data. Brex recruiters will only reach out via LinkedIn or email with a brex.com domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Brex via other sources should be ignored.