Senior Staff Engineer

Braze

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Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
Austin, TXNew York City, NY
Salary
$208,000–$349,655 / yr
Posted
148 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $207k
This role $279k
$138k most similar roles pay here $372k

This role pays more than 91% of similar roles. Most pay $170,950–$244,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $279k versus about $207k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About Braze

Braze is a leading cloud-based customer engagement platform that enables brands to foster human connection with consumers through interactive, real-time, cross-channel marketing.

Braze currently has 108 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $149,000–$234,000 across 107 roles with salary data.

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At a glance

TL;DR · Senior Staff Engineer

Senior Staff Engineer As a technical anchor for the Channels division, you will bridge the gap between customer-facing dashboards and underlying delivery engines to manage the entire lifecycle of a message. You will provide technical leadership by defining architectural directions, establishing best practices, and resolving technical debt while leading large, ambiguous projects across multiple teams. Your day-to-day work involves building foundational systems, developing shared frameworks for marketing message editors, and creating code-generation tooling to streamline new channel deployments. You will also mentor engineers and improve system reliability through better observability and error handling. The role requires expertise in Ruby, Ruby on Rails, TypeScript, React, MongoDB, and distributed systems. This position solves the complex problem of ensuring a consistent, high-quality experience across various messaging channels while maintaining developer velocity as the product matures to enterprise scale.

What does a Engineer earn in Texas?

Median $182000 from 45 postings across 17 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Drive architectural direction and define technical best practices to resolve quality issues and technical debt.
  • Lead large, ambiguous projects from initial problem framing through implementation and operational support.
  • Develop foundational systems, frameworks, and tools that serve as a force multiplier for the engineering organization.
  • Mentor engineers across all levels through code reviews, architecture reviews, and technical pairing.
  • Improve system reliability by enhancing observability and tightening error handling across dashboard and delivery layers.
  • Build shared components and infrastructure to support a maturing suite of marketing channels.
  • Translate complex technical debt into business risks for senior leadership and stakeholders.

What we're looking for

  • Must have 10+ years of software engineering experience.
  • Must have experience as a technical leader influencing multiple teams or complex product systems.
  • Must be comfortable working across the full stack with experience in Ruby on Rails and TypeScript/React.
  • Must have experience designing and shipping foundational infrastructure such as frameworks, libraries, or platform services.
  • Must possess strong architectural judgment to balance abstraction with simplicity for a maturing product suite.
  • Must be an effective communicator capable of mentoring engineers and translating technical debt into business risk.
  • Must have a track record of identifying high-leverage work and driving projects through ambiguity.
  • Experience with shared component libraries, real-time systems, or developer experience tooling is preferred.

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