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Based on 240 similar postings.
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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
83 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$192,000–$240,000
across 79 roles with salary data.
The Staff Software Engineer, Product Data Platform joins the Product Data Platform team to build and operate high-performance data, query, and search infrastructure. This role supports critical product experiences, including AI-powered agentic reporting. You will shape technical direction across multiple teams by identifying high-impact architectural problems, resolving systemic performance and scalability issues, and owning query performance strategies like indexing and schema design. You will design distributed systems while balancing tradeoffs between consistency, latency, and cost. Key responsibilities include mentoring senior engineers and contributing to high-stakes initiatives within the JVM ecosystem using Kotlin and Java. Required expertise includes backend engineering, relational databases like Postgres or Aurora, and leading large-scale distributed systems. You will also address technical gaps in multi-tenant or data-heavy platforms in regulated environments.
What does a Software Engineer earn in California?
Median $214500 from 1193 postings across 76 companies.
Distributed Systems
Platform Engineering
CI/CD
Infrastructure as Code
Data Governance
Systems Design
Streaming Ingestion
Monitoring
Observability
Data Quality
data, lineage
Encryption
Policy as Code