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We’re a genuinely approachable, exceptionally kind, and intensely passionate crew.\nWe seek to ignite that passion by setting high standards, championing teamwork, and creating work-life harmony as we collectively navigate rapid growth on a global scale while striving for greater equity and opportunity - inside and outside our organization.\nTo flourish here, you must be prepared to set a high bar for yourself and those around you. There is always a way to contribute: Acting with autonomy, having accountability and being open to new perspectives are essential to our continued success.\nOur deep curiosity to learn and our eagerness to share diverse passions with others gives us balance and injects a one-of-a-kind vibrancy into our culture.\nIf you are driven to solve exhilarating challenges and have a bias toward action in the face of change, you will be empowered to make a real impact here, with a sharp and passionate team at your back. If Braze sounds like a place where you can thrive, we can’t wait to meet you.\nWHAT YOU'LL DO\nWe're looking for a Senior Software Engineer II to join the Decisioning Studio Integrations team building BrazeAI Decisioning Studio™. Decisioning Studio is a reinforcement learning platform that runs continuous experiments to personalize customer engagement for each individual. Its results depend on the data it learns from and on the channels that carry its decisions to customers. Our team owns both. We ingest enterprise customer data of any schema and at a very large scale from warehouses, engagement platforms and other enterprise systems. We also deliver the recommendations from our RL pipelines across email, SMS, push, in-app and other channels. These are high-impact, customer-facing features.\nIn this role, you will:\nLead complex integration projects from design through build and rollout, and set technical direction for the Decisioning Studio integration platform\nDesign and build integrations with cloud data warehouses, customer engagement platforms and other enterprise systems, for both data ingestion and activation orchestration\nBuild ingestion pipelines that handle every way customers send data, including batch pulls, file drops, APIs and streaming, and accept arbitrary schemas without letting bad data reach our models\nBuild event-driven, fault-tolerant activation pipelines that deliver recommendations on schedule, recover cleanly from partial failures and never send twice\nDesign for multi-region deployment and compliance requirements, including data residency and PII handling\nOwn your systems in production. Instrument them with Datadog, take part in the on-call rotation, and take incidents all the way to the root cause\nWork with data scientists, ML engineers and product managers to turn integration requirements into reusable platform capabilities\nMentor engineers and raise the bar for code quality, testing and design review\nWHO YOU ARE\n6+ years of backend engineering experience building and operating distributed systems in production\nA track record of technical leadership: owning complex projects end to end, making architecture decisions and setting direction for other engineers\nExperience building data pipelines or integrations that move very large volumes of data between systems, including schema changes, backfills and partial failures\nA strong grasp of event-driven architecture and reliability patterns: message brokers such as Kafka, idempotency, retries with backoff, dead-letter handling, and at-least-once versus exactly-once tradeoffs\nProficiency in Python and SQL\nHands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred) and Kubernetes\nExperience with AI coding assistants, and the judgment to know when they help and when they don't\nA clear communicator who works well with engineering, data science and product\nA self-starter who finds problems and works around obstacles without waiting for direction\nBonus points:\nExperience integrating with cloud data warehouses such as BigQuery, Snowflake or Redshift\nExperience integrating with customer engagement platforms such as Braze, Adobe, Salesforce Marketing Cloud or Klaviyo\nExperience building multi-region systems under data residency and compliance requirements\nExperience running ML systems in production\nFor candidates based in the United States, the pay range for this position at the start of employment is expected to be between $156,364 and $279,957/year, with an expected On Target Earnings (OTE) between $172,000 and $306,000/year (including bonus or commission). Your exact offer may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. In addition to cash compensation, this role qualifies for a comprehensive Total Rewards package that includes equity grants of restricted stock (RSUs) so that you will own a piece of our company.\nWHAT WE OFFER\nBraze benefits vary by location, and we encourage you to review our specific benefits offerings for each country at here. More details on benefits plans will be provided if you receive an offer of employment.\nFrom offering comprehensive benefits to fostering hybrid ways of working, we've got you covered so you can prioritize work-life harmony. Braze offers benefits such as:\nCompetitive compensation that may include equity\nRetirement and Employee Stock Purchase Plans\nFlexible paid time off\nComprehensive benefit plans covering medical, dental, vision, life, and disability\nFamily services that include fertility benefits and equal paid parental leave\nProfessional development supported by formal career pathing, learning platforms, and a yearly learning stipend\nA curated in-office employee experience, designed to foster community, team connections, and innovation\nOpportunities to give back to your community, including an annual company-wide Volunteer Week and donation matching\nEmployee Resource Groups that provide supportive communities within Braze\nCollaborative, transparent, and fun culture recognized as a Great Place to Work®\nABOUT BRAZE\nBraze is the leading customer engagement platform that empowers brands to Be Absolutely Engaging™ Braze helps brands deliver great customer experiences that drive value both for consumers and for their businesses. Built on a foundation of composable intelligence, BrazeAI™ allows marketers to combine and activate AI agents, models, and features at every touchpoint throughout the Braze Customer Engagement Platform for smarter, faster, and more meaningful customer engagement. From cross-channel messaging and journey orchestration to Al-powered decisioning and optimization, Braze enables companies to turn action into interaction through autonomous, 1:1 personalized experiences.\nThe company has repeatedly been recognized as a Leader in marketing technology by industry analysts, and was voted a G2 “Best of Marketing and Digital Advertising Software Product” in 2025.\nBraze was also named a 2025 Best Companies To Work For by U.S. News and World Report, a 2025 America’s Greatest Companies by Newsweek, and a 2025 Fortune Best Workplace in Technology™ by Great Place To Work®, among other accolades. Braze is also proudly certified as a Great Place to Work® in the U.S., the UK, Australia, and Singapore.\nThe company is headquartered in New York with offices in Austin, Berlin, Bucharest, Chicago, Dubai, Jakarta, London, Paris, San Francisco, São Paulo, Singapore, Seoul, Sydney and Tokyo.\nBRAZE IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER\nAt Braze, we strive to create equitable growth and opportunities inside and outside the organization.\nBuilding meaningful connections is at the heart of everything we do, and that includes our recruiting practices. We're committed to offering all candidates a fair, accessible, and inclusive experience - regardless of age, color, disability, gender identity, marital status, maternity, national origin, pregnancy, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or status as a protected veteran. When applying and interviewing with Braze, we want you to feel comfortable showcasing what makes you you.\nWe know that sometimes different circumstances can lead talented people to hesitate to apply for a role unless they meet 100% of the criteria. If this sounds familiar, we encourage you to apply, as we’d love to meet you\nOUR AI-POWERED BRAZE RECRUITMENT PROCESS\nAt Braze, we’re committed to a fair and transparent candidate experience. To help our recruitment teams focus on what matters most - the person behind each application - we use AI-assisted tools at certain stages of our recruitment process.\nThis includes using AI to analyze the experience, skills and qualifications in your application materials to help with screening and prioritizing candidates. Such screening may amount to a form of solely automated decision-making. We also use AI for administrative support, like scheduling and recording interviews and summarizing interview notes. Our recruiting teams remain responsible for all hiring decisions and are involved throughout the process.\nDepending on where you are located, you may have certain rights available to you in relation to Braze’s use of AI:\nTo opt out of AI-assisted review of your application, please click the “Learn More” at the end of the application form below and follow the instructions before submitting your application. Please note, if you apply to multiple roles at Braze, you will need to opt out in relation to each application.\nTo exercise other types of rights, such as rights to request further information about how AI is used in our recruitment process, to request a manual review of any decision made or to contest a decision, please contact us at . \nPlease contact us at  with any questions. To find out more about our hiring process, check out this page.\nNotice Regarding Automated Employment Decision Tool (NYC Local Law 144)\nOur use of AI during the application review process may include the use of automated employment decision tools. Pursuant to New York City Local Law 144, for roles based in New York City, or if you reside in New York City, you have the right to request an alternative selection process or a reasonable accommodation instead of AI-assisted review. \nTo opt out of AI-assisted review of your application, please click the “Learn More” button below and follow the instructions before submitting your application. Please note, if you apply to multiple roles at Braze, you will need to opt out in relation to each application. Please submit any other request to our Talent Acquisition team at  promptly after applying. 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