Hiring: Senior Staff Engineer Company: Braze Location: Chicago, IL Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 10:58:31 Employment Type: Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : API Design, CI/CD, Design System, Embedded Systems, Event-Driven, MongoDB, Rails, React, Ruby, TypeScript, User Experience About the job Experience: •Have 10+ years of software engineering experience, including meaningful time as a technical leader influencing multiple teams or complex product systems Required Skills: •Together, these teams define how our customers interact with our product and how we interact with the world. Your role is to make sure both are excellent. •Partner on the technical vision and quality bar for the division. Drive architectural direction, define best practices, and ensure teams have a clear path to resolving persistent quality and technical debt issues •Lead large, ambiguous projects end-to-end. Drive efforts that span multiple teams from initial problem framing and design docs through implementation, rollout, and operational support •Support maturing channels. Help teams evolve their stacks to support more sophisticated marketing use cases, ensuring that foundational primitives are flexible and robust •Mentor engineers at every level. Simplify hard problems, connect technical decisions to business outcomes, and raise the bar through code review, architecture review, and pairing •Champion reliability and operability. Improve observability and tighten error handling across the dashboard and delivery layers, advocating for incremental rollouts and reducing division-wide incidents •Write code. Staff Engineers at Braze are hands-on; you will design and build the foundational systems and frameworks that act as a force multiplier for the organization •Developing shared frameworks for our marketing message editors to ensure a consistent experience across all messaging channels Qualifications: •Are comfortable working across the full stack. You have experience in Ruby on Rails and are proficient in modern frontend environments (TypeScript, React) where customers configure their experience •Have designed and shipped foundational infrastructure. You've built frameworks, libraries, or platform services used by many other engineers to build product features •Bring strong architectural judgment. You know when to invest in abstraction, when to keep things simple, and how to make technical bets that support a maturing product suite •Are an effective communicator and mentor. You can translate technical debt into business risk and elevate the engineers around you through coaching and clear technical vision •Have a track record of identifying highest-leverage work. You can build consensus across different teams and drive projects to completion with minimal direction through high ambiguity Compensation: •Competitive benefits and rewards package •Competitive compensation that may include equity Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!