Braze
Senior Software Engineer II, Decisioning Studio Integrations Team
$156K–$306K
Chicago +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2026
- Location
- Chicago
New York City - Experience
- 6+ years of backend engineering experience.
About the job
Lead development of data ingestion and activation integrations for BrazeAI Decisioning Studio, a reinforcement-learning platform that personalizes customer engagement.
What you'll do
- Lead integration projects from design through rollout and set technical direction for the platform.
- Build large-scale, resilient data ingestion and recommendation activation pipelines across enterprise systems and customer channels.
- Own production systems, including monitoring, on-call incident response, compliance design, and mentoring engineers.
What they ask for
- 6+ years of backend engineering experience building and operating distributed production systems.
- Technical leadership experience owning complex projects, making architecture decisions, and setting direction.
- Experience building high-volume data pipelines or integrations, including schema changes, backfills, and partial failures; strong understanding of event-driven reliability patterns.
- Proficiency in Python and SQL; hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes; experience with AI coding assistants.
Nice to have
- GCP; integrations with cloud data warehouses or customer engagement platforms.
- Multi-region systems under data residency and compliance requirements; production ML systems.
Pay
USD $156,364 and $279,957/year (base salary); USD $172,000 and $306,000/year (OTE, including bonus or commission)
Tools
Python, SQL, GCP, Kubernetes, Datadog, Kafka, BigQuery, Snowflake
AI focus
Build integrations for a reinforcement-learning platform that personalizes customer engagement; production ML systems experience is a bonus. The role also calls for AI coding assistant experience. Braze uses AI-assisted tools in recruitment screening and administration.
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