Senior Software Engineer, Data Storage

Engineering at BrexThe 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 doOur 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.ResponsibilitiesWork within and across Product Engineering teams to determine requirements and challenges to managing their data storesLeverage your expertise in databases along with your skills as a developer to write systems that mitigate or surface metrics around database problemsMentor database users on good modeling techniques and query practices on an as-needed basisPerform or advise tactical solutions to challenges while maintaining service reliabilityBe part of an On-Call rotation for responding to incidentsOperate core systems of Brex Infrastructure to ensure the highest levels of reliabilityWork closely with other engineers to design, operate, and scale their systemsEvangelize best practices both internally and externallyRequirementsSignificant experience in database modeling, operation, and administration with common open-source technologies such as PostgreSQLSignificant experience in systems software development, preferably in DevOps4+ years of experience working in AWS or equivalent cloud provider2+ years of experience working with Kubernetes environmentsExperience working with at least one programming language (e.g. Golang, Java, Python)Strong communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills

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