Join Braze as a Senior Software Engineer to build and maintain core infrastructure for personalized email delivery at scale.
Posted by employer 1 day ago
First seen on Joblaze 10 hours ago
Last verified on the company career page 10 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Build and maintain core infrastructure for email delivery
- Process associated reporting data
- Architect new iterations of critical components
- Optimize systems for resilience as they scale
- Provide guidance on key architectural decisions
Must have
- 5+ years of full-stack development experience
- Strong understanding of design, data structures and algorithms
- Great communication and organizational skills
Nice to have
- Professional experience building software at scale
- Experience with agile processes
AI in the day-to-day
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Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In the role of Senior Software Engineer I on the Email team at Braze, the engineer will focus on developing and maintaining the infrastructure that supports the delivery of billions of personalized emails each month. Key skills include full-stack development, with experience in languages such as Ruby, Go, TypeScript, or JavaScript, as well as a strong grasp of data structures and algorithms. This position is ideal for a seasoned technical leader with a collaborative mindset, ready to tackle complex engineering challenges in a fast-paced environment.
Joblaze insights
- Listed today — first seen on Joblaze September 25, 2026. Last confirmed on Braze's careers page September 25, 2026.
- This exact title is also open at 4 other locations at Braze: Toronto, Canada, San Francisco, United States, Chicago, United States, New York City, United States.
- Salary band is below the typical range for Fullstack roles (median ~$165,000).
- Starts above 5% of 102 comparable senior fullstack roles in United States that list React we track (median $170,000 across 52 companies). See React salary trends
- React appears in 70.8% of 233 comparable senior fullstack roles in United States; Ruby on Rails appears in 3.4% of 233 comparable senior fullstack roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Senior Software Engineer I, Email role remote?
- It's hybrid — Braze expects some on-site time in Austin, United States.
- What's the salary range?
- Braze lists $128,842–$232,200 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Senior Software Engineer I, Email role.
- Where is the role based?
- Braze is hiring for this position in Austin, United States.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Go, JavaScript, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, React, Ruby.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Braze targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Software Engineer I, Email role at Braze.
From the original posting
At Braze, we have found our people. We’re a genuinely approachable, exceptionally kind, and intensely passionate crew.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Email team, which is responsible for building and maintaining the core infrastructure that delivers billions of personalized emails a month to our customers’ end users as well as processing all associated reporting data. This includes a highly parallelized platform to personalize & send emails at huge scale, REST APIs to manage/track user subscriptions, web pages to allow end-users to self-manage preferences, and dashboards to configure customer email domains.
As an engineer on the team, you will work with your teammates to build out new features, improve performance, and provide guidance on key architectural decisions. You will have the opportunity to tackle significant engineering challenges, such as architecting new iterations of critical components for our systems and optimizing our systems for resilience as they scale. We greatly value colleagues who help make us better engineers and are excited, in turn, to learn from us. If that’s you, we’d love to hear from you!
WHO YOU ARE
- 5+ years of full-stack development experience
- Experienced technical leader
- Strong understanding of design, data structures and algorithms
- A self starter with great communication and organizational skills and will have worked in a team environment before
Bonus:
- Professional experience building software at scale
- Professional experience with Ruby, Go, TypeScript or JavaScript; MongoDB or Postgres; Ruby on Rails or React
- Experience with agile processes
For candidates based in the United States, the pay range for this position at the start of employment is expected to be between $128,842 and $232,200/year, with an expected On Target Earnings (OTE) between $144,000 and $258,000/year (including bonus or commission). Your exact offer may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. In addition to cash compensation, this role qualifies for a comprehensive Total Rewards package that includes equity grants of restricted stock (RSUs) so that you will own a piece of our company.
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WHAT WE OFFER
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