What you’ll do
As a Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Release Engineering) at Brex, you will design, build, and operate the core systems that power Brex’s release, observability, and incident management processes. You will partner closely with product, platform, and operations teams to ensure releases are safe, fast, and reliable, and that our infrastructure scales securely as Brex grows.
Where you’ll work
This role will be based in our New York office. We are a hybrid environment that combines the energy and connections of being in the office with the benefits and flexibility of working from home. We currently require a minimum of three coordinated days in the office per week on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. As a perk, we also have up to four weeks per year of fully remote work!
Responsibilities
Design, build, and maintain the release infrastructure that powers Brex’s deployment pipelines and incident workflows
Drive technical strategy and architecture for release and observability systems, making them more scalable, reliable, and secure
Collaborate with product, engineering, and operations partners to ensure Brex’s releases are safe, predictable, and low-friction
Identify and deliver improvements to the end-to-end release process (from code merge to production) to reduce risk and cycle time
Build and evolve tooling for observability and incident response, enabling fast detection, triage, and resolution
Proactively identify and mitigate risks in our release and infrastructure stack, including performance, reliability, and security concerns
Define, instrument, and monitor key metrics for release engineering (e.g., deployment frequency, change failure rate, MTTR) and use them to guide improvements
Partner with other infrastructure and product teams to debug complex production issues and drive long-term fixes
Contribute to and champion best practices in release engineering, reliability, and operational excellence across the organization
Mentor other engineers on the team, providing technical guidance and code reviews to elevate the overall quality of our infrastructure
Stay up-to-date on emerging tools and practices in release engineering, observability, and SRE, and bring relevant ideas into Brex’s stack
Requirements
7+ years of professional experience designing, building, and operating backend or infrastructure systems in production
Strong proficiency in backend programming languages (e.g., Go, Java, Kotlin, or Python) with a focus on reliability and performance
Hands-on experience with CI/CD and release pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Buildkite, Argo, Spinnaker, Jenkins) including build, test, and deployment automation
Experience architecting and operating scalable, high-availability distributed systems on cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure)
Deep familiarity with containerization and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation)
Experience designing and maintaining observability tooling (metrics, logs, tracing) and integrating it into incident response workflows
Strong understanding of reliability and SRE practices, including SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and incident management best practices
Experience designing and optimizing data storage systems (SQL and/or NoSQL) for operational and observability use cases
Proven track record of improving release processes (e.g., reducing deployment risk, increasing deployment frequency, automating rollbacks)
Comfort working cross-functionally with product and other engineering teams to debug complex production issues and ship changes safely
Strong communication and collaboration skills, including writing clear design docs and driving technical decisions across teams
Compensation
The expected salary range for this role is $192,000 - $240,000. However, the starting base pay will depend on a number of factors, including the candidate’s location, skills, experience, market demands, and internal pay parity. Depending on the position offered, equity and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package.
Brex LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Capital One, N.A.
Please be aware, job-seekers may be at risk of targeting by malicious actors looking for personal data. Brex recruiters will only reach out via LinkedIn or email with a brex.com domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Brex via other sources should be ignored.
