Software Engineer II, Cloud Infrastructure
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Responsibilities
- Where you'll work
- Build and Scale: Maintain and evolve Brex's core cloud infrastructure, including Kubernetes (EKS), RDS/Postgres, and networking foundations.
- Execute BCDR Strategy: Contribute to the multi-year BCDR initiative by implementing multi-region infrastructure readiness and automated failover capabilities.
- Technical Ownership: Drive technical excellence across the stack, utilizing tools like Terraform, Docker, Flux, and Go to automate and improve infrastructure lifecycle.
- Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate with product and engineering teams to ensure seamless adoption of new infrastructure capabilities and support migrations.
- Incident Response: Participate in the team's on-call rotation and contribute to improving our incident response frameworks and system reliability.
- Operational Hygiene: Foster a culture of technical excellence by improving work tracking, documentation, and operational best practices.
Requirements
- Technical Foundation: Proven experience with cloud infrastructure foundations, specifically Kubernetes and Postgres.
- Operational Expertise: Experience with incident response and maintaining highly available production systems.
- Public Cloud Depth: Strong hands-on experience with AWS services and infrastructure-at-scale.
- Collaborative Mindset: Strong communication skills with the ability to coordinate complex changes across multiple autonomous engineering teams.
- Engineering Background: Professional experience in software or systems engineering, with a focus on building scalable systems.
- Bonus Points
- Infrastructure as Code: Experience using Terraform to manage complex, multi-account environments.
- Resiliency Engineering: Prior experience with BCDR planning, multi-region rollouts, or disaster recovery frameworks.
- Optimization: Background in cloud infrastructure cost optimization or database performance tuning.
- Language Proficiency: Experience with Go, as it is a core part of our tech stack.
- 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.
Benefits
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Why join us Brex is the intelligent finance platform that enables companies to spend smarter and move faster in more than 200 markets. By combining global corporate cards and banking with intuitive spend management, bill pay, and travel software, Brex enables founders and finance teams to accelerate operations, gain real-time visibility, and control spend effortlessly. Brex's AI-native automation and world-class service eliminate manual expense and accounting tasks for customers so they can focus on what matters most. Tens of thousands of the world's best companies run on Brex, including DoorDash, Coinbase, Robinhood, Zoom, Plaid, Reddit, and SeatGeek. Working at Brex allows you to push your limits, challenge the status quo, and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry. We're committed to building a diverse team and inclusive culture and believe your potential should only be limited by how big you can dream. We make this a reality by empowering you with the tools, resources, and support you need to grow your career. Engineering at Brex Engineering at Brex is about building systems that scale with speed and intention. Our teams span Software, Data, Security, and IT, and operate with high autonomy and deep collaboration. We tackle hard technical problems, own our outcomes, and push for excellence at every level - from architecture to deployment. It's an environment where engineering is a craft, and builders become leaders.
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