Braze
Staff Software Engineer, User Targeting
$184K–$348K
New York City · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 2, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years of professional experience.
About the job
Lead the design and delivery of customer-facing user segmentation systems, pipelines, APIs, and dashboard features that process massive data volumes in real time.
What you'll do
- Architect and build large-scale segmentation systems, including extending the ClickHouse pipeline with filters and attributes.
- Own product development and backend systems end to end, improving performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.
- Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, collaborate across teams, and improve operational procedures.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including hands-on full-stack or backend work with high-scale, high-throughput systems.
- Track record delivering customer-facing products on high-scale data systems, from problem definition through launch and adoption.
- Track record building foundational data-driven systems at scale, such as streaming, real-time pipelines, or large-scale data platforms.
- Experience driving architecture and major technical initiatives; strong software design, data structures, and algorithms fundamentals.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with Ruby, Ruby on Rails, TypeScript, React, Sidekiq, SQL/NoSQL databases, MongoDB, ClickHouse, or Snowflake.
- Experience with Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, distributed systems, API design, or monitoring.
Pay
$184,000 and $314,079 annually (USD, base salary); $204,000 - $348,000/year (USD, OTE, including bonus or commission)
Tools
ClickHouse, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, TypeScript, React, Sidekiq, MongoDB, Snowflake
AI focus
Uses agentic AI tools in daily product development, including navigating the Ruby monolith, creating proofs of concept, and moving from request to working solution. The posting also describes AI-assisted recruiting tools.
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