WHAT YOU’LL DO

Braze leverages cutting-edge technologies to manage and optimize data storage in a multi-petabyte data warehouse (Snowflake). Our Datalake team plays a crucial role in streaming, accessing, and securely sharing vast amounts of data with both internal and external stakeholders through Kafka and Snowflake. Additionally, the team owns Cloud Data Ingestion (CDI), connecting Data Warehouses to Braze to sync massive amounts of data from multiple sources.

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Engineering Manager to lead our Datalake Team. The ideal candidate will be a strategic thinker with a strong technical background, capable of overseeing the development and optimization of our data warehouse and related products. 

As the Engineering Manager, You will build and maintain best-in-class systems by helping architect, develop, and optimize our product. You’ll own your team’s success by shaping their process, supporting engineers’ growth, and working closely with the team’s product manager and designer to keep team efforts on target for product goals.

WHO YOU ARE

• 6+ years of relevant experience with a strong track record of success, with 1+ years managing high performing teams
• Experienced technical leader with strong and good opinions on product development practices
• Passionate about customer experience and product delivery
• Calm, patient, considerate, compassionate, supportive, and inspiring leader
• A self starter with great communication and strong organizational skills, able to manage competing priorities and multiple streams of work at once
• Experience with agile processes and tools

Bonus:

• Professional experience building software at scale
• Experience with distributed systems, Snowflake, Python, Airflow, Kafka, MongoDB, Redis, Datadog, Kubernetes, React, Ruby, Ruby on Rails.
• Proficiency in Python and experience with related technologies (Kafka, Airflow, etc.).