Engineering Manager, Database

At Braze, we have found our people. We’re a genuinely approachable, exceptionally kind, and intensely passionate crew.

We seek to ignite that passion by setting high standards, championing teamwork, and creating work-life harmony as we collectively navigate rapid growth on a global scale while striving for greater equity and opportunity – inside and outside our organization.

To flourish here, you must be prepared to set a high bar for yourself and those around you. There is always a way to contribute: Acting with autonomy, having accountability and being open to new perspectives are essential to our continued success. Our deep curiosity to learn and our eagerness to share diverse passions with others gives us balance and injects a one-of-a-kind vibrancy into our culture.

If you are driven to solve exhilarating challenges and have a bias toward action in the face of change, you will be empowered to make a real impact here, with a sharp and passionate team at your back. If Braze sounds like a place where you can thrive, we can’t wait to meet you.

Braze operates at a massive scale with over 4 billion monthly active users across our customers, collecting hundreds of billions of data points each month and sending billions of messages to end-users daily. We use a diverse technology stack rooted in Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, Kubernetes, and more. The Database Reliability Engineering team (DBRE) at Braze will be responsible for keeping the database systems that power Braze's platform running smoothly. DBRE is a blend of traditional database administration and software engineering that applies best-in-class engineering principles, operational discipline, software development, and automation to the databases infrastructure at Braze (primarily MongoDB and PostgreSQL).

As an Engineering Manager at Braze, you will be responsible for building the team and products that continuously improve the performance, availability, infrastructure, and tooling that are critical to Braze's database infrastructure. Your leadership and experience will guide your team in improving automation and infrastructure reliability. Your decisions will empower Braze’s other engineering teams to leverage the data products and platforms you manage.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Partner with Braze’s engineering teams on architecting products to effectively utilize infrastructure platforms in a scalable, reliable manner.
• Ensure that Braze can meet our strict enterprise-grade SLAs with customers by building products that can beat those SLAs
• Participate in an on-call rotation to command incidents within your product scope and provide support for other engineers.
• Manage projects via our standard project management process
• Work on small technical changes/improvements outside the blocking path
• Foster an environment where team members thrive, and the team executes well

WHO YOU ARE

• 5+ years of DevOps/SRE/DBRE Management (or related experience with an increasing set of responsibilities)
• 5+ years of experience running MongoDB or PostgreSQL at scale 
• Proven ability in people management, strategic planning, cost optimization, and management of multiple concurrent projects with competing priorities and overlapping resources
• History of growing and mentoring team members with a wide range of experience levels
• Demonstrated success in ensuring risk and change management, observability, and maintaining service level objectives
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, relationship-building skills, and the ability to achieve results across reporting chains
• High level of ownership and accountability for high-quality work and documentation, both personally and at a team level
• Comfortable with resource allocation and Strong technical background with MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, Postgres, or similar data technologies

For candidates based in the United States, the pay range for this position at the start of employment is expected to be between $180,000 and $230,000/year with an expected On Target Earnings (OTE) between $200,000 and $250,000/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, Braze offers full- and part- time employees a comprehensive Total Rewards package that includes equity grants of restricted stock (RSUs) so that all Braze employees own a piece of our company.

WHAT WE OFFER

Details of these benefits plan will be provided if a candidate receives an offer of employment. Benefits may vary by location.

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