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About Brex
Brex is a financial technology company providing corporate credit cards, cash management accounts, and expense management software designed specifically for startups and growing technology companies. Industry: Financial Technology & Corporate Banking
Brex currently has
61 open roles
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Listed pay typically runs
$192,000–$240,000
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As a Senior Software Engineer, Release Infra, you will join the infrastructure team to design, build, and operate core systems powering release, observability, and incident management processes. You will drive technical strategy for deployment pipelines, ensuring they are safe, reliable, and low-friction while improving end-to-end workflows from code merge to production. Your daily work involves building tools for fast detection and triage, monitoring key metrics like MTTR and deployment frequency, and mentoring other engineers on infrastructure quality. The role requires proficiency in Go, Java, Kotlin, or Python, along with experience in CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Buildkite, Argo, Spinnaker, or Jenkins. You will work with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CloudFormation to manage distributed systems on cloud platforms while optimizing SQL and NoSQL data storage for operational use cases.
What does a Software Engineer earn in California?
Median $214000 from 775 postings across 63 companies.
Design, build, and maintain the release infrastructure for deployment pipelines and incident workflows.
Drive technical strategy and architecture for scalable, reliable, and secure observability systems.
Improve end-to-end release processes to reduce risk and cycle time from code merge to production.
Build and evolve tooling for observability and incident response to enable fast detection and resolution.
Proactively identify and mitigate performance, reliability, and security risks in the infrastructure stack.
Define and monitor key metrics like deployment frequency and MTTR to guide engineering improvements.
Debug complex production issues and implement long-term fixes with cross-functional teams.
Mentor other engineers through technical guidance and code reviews to improve infrastructure quality.
What we're looking for
7+ years of professional experience designing, building, and operating backend or infrastructure systems in production.
Proficiency in backend programming languages such as Go, Java, Kotlin, or Python with a focus on reliability and performance.
Hands-on experience with CI/CD and release pipelines including GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Buildkite, Argo, Spinnaker, or Jenkins.
Experience architecting and operating scalable, high-availability distributed systems on cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure.
Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes, along with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
Experience designing and maintaining observability tooling for metrics, logs, and tracing integrated into incident response workflows.
Strong understanding of SRE practices including SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and incident management best practices.
Experience designing and optimizing SQL and/or NoSQL data storage systems for operational and observability use cases.
LLM
Generative AI
Python
C++
C#
Java
JavaScript
Distributed Computing
RLHF
Model Architecture
Data Curation
Inference Infrastructure
Benchmarking Systems
backend systems
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Post-training