Responsibilities
- Manage and support a senior team of 6 ICs, fostering a culture of high ownership, autonomy, and technical excellence.
- Oversee the execution of the multi-year BCDR initiative, ensuring multi-region infrastructure readiness and automated failover capabilities.
- Maintain and scale Brex’s core cloud infrastructure, including Kubernetes (EKS), RDS/Aurora/Postgres, networking (VPC), and AWS service integrations.
- Partner with product and engineering teams across Brex to drive adoption of new infrastructure capabilities and ensure successful migrations.
- Improve team hygiene by establishing and improving best practices for work tracking (Linear), documentation, and incident response.
- Effectively allocate resources to balance critical project delivery with long-term infrastructure stability.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience directly managing software or infrastructure engineering teams.
- Deep hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure foundations, specifically AWS, Kubernetes, and Postgres.
- Proven ability to design and implement complex infrastructure projects such as multi-region deployments or disaster recovery frameworks.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to influence technical decisions across multiple autonomous teams.
- Ability to dive deep into technical issues while maintaining a high-level strategic view of organizational goals.
- 5+ years of experience in software or systems engineering.
Nice to Have
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools, specifically Terraform.
- Background in managing cloud infrastructure cost optimization programs.
- Experience with our tech stack components: Go, Kotlin, Python, or Elixir.
- Passion for leveraging AI and LLM-assisted workflows to increase engineering velocity.
Work Arrangement
Hybrid — Seattle
Team
Team size: 6. Structure: manages 6 individual contributors (ICs)
Additional Information
- Minimum of three coordinated days in the office per week: Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
- Up to four weeks per year of fully remote work.
- Brex recruiters will only reach out via LinkedIn or email with a brex.com domain.
- Brex LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Capital One, N.A.
