Braze
Staff Software Engineer, User Targeting
$184K–$348K
Austin +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 2, 2026
- Location
- Austin
New York City - Experience
- 7+ years of professional experience.
About the job
Leads the design and development of Braze’s large-scale user segmentation systems, data pipelines, APIs, and customer-facing dashboard capabilities.
What you'll do
- Design and build real-time systems and extend the ClickHouse pipeline with new filters and attributes.
- Own segmentation systems and product capabilities end to end, improving performance, reliability, cost, and customer value.
- Set technical direction, 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 development or backend services, particularly 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 architectural direction and major technical initiatives; deep understanding of software design, data structures, and algorithms.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with Ruby, Ruby on Rails, TypeScript, React, Sidekiq, and SQL/NoSQL databases.
- Experience with MongoDB, ClickHouse, Snowflake, data lakes, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, distributed systems, or API design.
Pay
$184,000 and $314,079 annually (base salary); $204,000 - $348,000/year (OTE, including bonus or commission)
Tools
ClickHouse, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, TypeScript, React, Sidekiq, MongoDB, Snowflake
AI focus
The team uses agentic AI tools to navigate its Ruby monolith, create proof of concepts, and accelerate product delivery. The role does not specify building AI products.
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