Brex
Staff Software Engineer, Product Data Platform
$240K–$300K
San Francisco, California, United States +2 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Feb 19, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, California, United States
Seattle, Washington, United States
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - Experience
- 8+ years of backend engineering experience.
About the job
Leads technical strategy and hands-on development of Brex’s Product Data Platform, building scalable data, query, and search infrastructure for product experiences, including AI-powered reporting.
What you'll do
- Set architecture direction and resolve cross-team performance, consistency, scalability, and reliability problems.
- Design and optimize query systems and distributed systems; contribute hands-on to critical initiatives, including production latency issues.
- Raise technical quality through design reviews, mentoring, and alignment across teams.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of backend engineering experience building and operating production systems at scale, including technical leadership on multi-team initiatives.
- Track record leading architecture and delivery for large-scale distributed systems in a platform or infrastructure environment.
- Deep hands-on relational database expertise, including query plan analysis, indexing, and optimization.
- Ability to resolve ambiguous cross-cutting problems, influence stakeholders, and mentor senior engineers.
Nice to have
- Postgres or Aurora; OpenSearch / Elasticsearch or similar systems.
- Flink, Kafka, semantic/analytics layers, multi-tenant or regulated data platforms, or AI/agentic product foundations.
Pay
$240,000 - $300,000 USD base salary
Tools
JVM, Kotlin, Java, Postgres, Aurora, OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, Flink
AI focus
Builds data-platform foundations that power AI-powered products, including an agentic reporting experience.
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