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Salary: USD 140,400 - 232,200 / annual
Braze is seeking a Senior Software Engineer I to join the Currents team, responsible for building, maintaining, and evolving Currents, a robust Kafka-based event pipeline data export system at scale. The Currents system handles tens of billions of messages daily that customers leverage to analyze user behavior in near real-time.
You will be a key engineer on a highly collaborative and skilled team, responsible for bringing projects from concept to production and improving existing high-scale systems. You will leverage your past experiences, skills, and strong sense of teamwork to tackle significant engineering challenges of running a critical data streaming system. The role emphasizes technical leadership through mentoring and example-setting, working with a distributed systems architecture that powers a core product offering.
Braze is the leading customer engagement platform empowering brands to deliver great customer experiences. The company combines composable intelligence and AI agents to enable marketers to activate AI-powered decisioning and optimization across cross-channel messaging and journey orchestration. Braze has been recognized as a Leader in marketing technology by industry analysts, named a 2025 Best Companies To Work For by U.S. News & World Report, and a 2025 Fortune Best Workplace in Technology by Great Place To Work. The company is headquartered in New York with offices globally including Austin, Berlin, Chicago, London, San Francisco, São Paulo, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo.
Braze offers a comprehensive Total Rewards package including equity grants of restricted stock (RSUs), competitive compensation, retirement and employee stock purchase plans, flexible paid time off, comprehensive medical/dental/vision/life/disability benefits, family services including fertility benefits and equal paid parental leave, professional development with formal career pathing and yearly learning stipend, curated in-office employee experience, volunteer opportunities with annual company-wide Volunteer Week and donation matching, and Employee Resource Groups.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 5+ years of full-stack development experience
- Experience building foundational systems at scale and spearheading software projects that significantly advanced organizational goals
- Demonstrated ability to lead by example and mentor engineers, making colleagues better
- Self-starter with excellent communication and organizational skills; experience in highly collaborative team environments
- Experience with Kafka at scale or comparable technology
- Professional experience with distributed systems and/or microservices
- Bonus: experience with Java, Kotlin, Confluent, or React
