Engineering Manager, Data Infrastructure Braze
New York, NY

Job Description

Braze (formerly Appboy) is a customer engagement platform that delivers messaging experiences across push, email, apps, and more. Braze is built specifically for today's mobile-first world and tomorrow's ambient computing future. Braze is set apart as the platform that allows for real-time and continuous data streaming, replacing decades-old databases that aren't built for today's on-demand, always-connected customer. With data, technology, and teams working together in unison, the Braze platform makes marketing more authentic, brands more human, and customers more satisfied with every experience.

Each month, tens of billions of messages associated with over 1.5 billion active users are managed through our technology. Braze is a venture-backed company with hundreds of employees in offices located in New York City, San Francisco, London, and Singapore. We've been named a Leader in the Forrester Wave™: Mobile Engagement Automation Q3 2017 evaluation, recognized by Forbes Cloud 100 at #85, ranked #225 on Inc.'s 500 Fastest Growing Private Companies, and listed as #21 in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 List. Learn more at Braze.com.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

We're looking for an Engineering Manager for our Data Infrastructure team. The Data Infrastructure team builds and maintains a robust Kafka-based event pipeline handling tens of billions of messages daily that our customers leverage to analyze user behavior in near real time.

You will help us architect, build and optimize new, massively scaled data processing solutions. You will both manage the team and do some hands-on software development. For that, you will participate in architecture planning, pull request reviews, and recruiting. Additionally, you'll optimize processes for the team's success, facilitate discourse, support engineers' growth, and work with the team's product manager to keep team efforts on target for product goals. You will ensure that your engineers are successful in their tasks and also enjoy their work!

WHO YOU ARE

* 6+ years of relevant experience with a strong track record of success
* Have strong and good opinions about how code should be written, as well as good development practices
* Experience with Kafka and Java for the core work
* Excellent communication skills and a user-centric attitude
* Calm, patient, considerate, compassionate, supportive, and encouraging
* Strong organizational skills and ability to keep track of multiple streams of work at once
* Experience with agile processes and tools such as JIRA
* Experience with Confluent, Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, Ruby, Python, Redis, Snowflake, microservice architecture, or other distributed messaging/queuing systems could all be beneficial

WHAT WE OFFER

Complete tech startup vibe including free daily lunches & snacks, group events and top of the line computer setup! A general feeling throughout the office that what you do matters everyday.

Collaboration! Complete support of your teammates across all departments and a real "get it done" attitude for our customers.

* Excellent medical insurance and life assurance coverage for you and your dependents
* Matching 401K
* Daily lunches, snacks and beverages
* Collaborative, transparent, collegial and fun loving office culture
* Flexible time off policy to balance your work and life in the way that suits you best

In addition, this position is exempt under the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act.