Braze is looking for a DevOps Engineering Lead to grow a team with the mandate to 10x our current development velocity while preserving quality and security. This role thrives in a fast-paced environment.
What You'll Do
- Own the internal platforms critical to our ability to develop, test, deploy, and monitor our code
- Design and implement IaC, CI/CD pipelines, and automation to minimize lead time across the stack
- Develop and enforce best practices for observability, monitoring, alerting, and incident response to minimize MTTR
- Architect and implement scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure (GCP/AWS)
- Lead technical design discussions, post-mortems, and architecture reviews as they pertain to the systems described above
- Identify and proactively address performance bottlenecks, cost inefficiencies, and system vulnerabilities
- Keep a cool head when on-call
What We're Looking For
- 7+ years of relevant industry experience
- Strong expertise in cloud platforms, bare metal and distributed systems
- Proven experience building, scaling, and maintaining production infrastructure
- Hands-on proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, etc.), container orchestration (Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana)
- Strong background in automation, scripting, and tooling (Bash; you will be writing lots of code)
- Excellent ability to diagnose and resolve complex system, scaling, or performance issues
- Self-starter mindset with the ability to balance technical depth, team leadership, and strategic impact
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Comfortable working autonomously and asynchronously within a distributed team
- Located in or able to work within GMT to EST time zones
Nice to Have
- Experience in Web3 or high-growth startups
Technical Stack
- Typescript, C++, LMDB for persistence, Discv5, libp2p, Ethereum as L1
- Terraform, OpenTelemetry, Grafana
- GCP, AWS, K8s
Benefits & Compensation
- Flexible, remote-first culture with HQ in London
- Competitive salary + equity/token options
- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
- Health, dental, and retirement benefits (based on location)
- Regular offsites for team collaboration and bonding
- Conference and learning budget for continual professional development
- A chance to work on truly cutting-edge zero-knowledge infrastructure with some of the best minds in the field
Work Mode
This is a global, remote position.
Braze is an equal opportunity employer that values creativity, diversity, and intellectual curiosity, and is passionate about leveraging creative talents to make a real-world impact shaping the future of digital privacy.
