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Salary: USD 140,400 - 232,200 / annual
Braze is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Currents team, responsible for building, maintaining, and evolving Currents, a robust Kafka-based event pipeline handling tens of billions of messages daily. This system is critical infrastructure 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 experience, skills, and strong sense of teamwork to tackle significant engineering challenges of running a critical data streaming system at scale.
The role involves full-stack development on foundational systems, spearheading software projects that advance organizational goals, and mentoring other engineers. You will work in a collaborative team environment with excellent communication and organizational skills required.
Braze is the leading customer engagement platform empowering brands to deliver great customer experiences. The company has been recognized as a Leader in marketing technology by industry analysts and was voted a G2 "Best of Marketing and Digital Advertising Software Product" in 2025. Braze was also 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, among other accolades. The company is headquartered in New York with offices globally including Chicago, Austin, Berlin, London, San Francisco, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo.
Braze offers comprehensive benefits including competitive compensation with equity, retirement and ESPP plans, flexible paid time off, comprehensive medical/dental/vision/life/disability coverage, family services with 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
- Excellent at mentoring engineers and making colleagues better
- Self-starter with great communication and organizational skills
- Experience working 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
