Senior Release Engineer, Infrastructure & Observability

Brex; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 192,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work up to four weeks per year

Job summary

Brex seeks a Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Release Engineering), to design, build, and operate the core systems powering Brex's release, observability, and incident management. You will partner with product, platform, and operations teams to ensure safe, fast, and scalable releases.

You will work in our San Francisco office in a hybrid model, with a minimum of three coordinated days in the office per week (Mon, Wed, Thu). Up to four weeks per year of remote work available as a perk.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional experience designing, building, and operating backend or infrastructure systems in production.
• Strong proficiency in backend programming languages (e.g., Go, Java, Kotlin, or Python) with a focus on reliability and performance.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD and release pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Buildkite, Argo, Spinnaker, Jenkins) including build, test, and deployment automation.
• Experience architecting and operating scalable, high-availability distributed systems on cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Deep familiarity with containerization and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Experience designing and maintaining observability tooling (metrics, logs, tracing) and integrating it into incident response workflows.
• Strong understanding of reliability and SRE practices, including SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and incident management best practices.
• Experience designing and optimizing data storage systems (SQL and/or NoSQL) for operational and observability use cases.
• Proven track record of improving release processes (e.g., reducing deployment risk, increasing deployment frequency, automating rollbacks).
• Comfort working cross-functionally with product and other engineering teams to debug complex production issues and ship changes safely.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, including writing clear design docs and driving technical decisions across teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain the release infrastructure that powers Brex's deployment pipelines and incident workflows.
• Drive technical strategy and architecture for release and observability systems, making them more scalable, reliable, and secure.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and operations partners to ensure Brex's releases are safe, predictable, and low-friction.
• Identify and deliver improvements to the end-to-end release process (from code merge to production) to reduce risk and cycle time.
• Build and evolve tooling for observability and incident response, enabling fast detection, triage, and resolution.
• Proactively identify and mitigate risks in our release and infrastructure stack, including performance, reliability, and security concerns.
• Define, instrument, and monitor key metrics for release engineering (e.g., deployment frequency, change failure rate, MTTR) and use them to guide improvements.
• Partner with other infrastructure and product teams to debug complex production issues and drive long-term fixes.
• Contribute to and champion best practices in release engineering, reliability, and operational excellence across the organization.
• Mentor other engineers on the team, providing technical guidance and code reviews to elevate the overall quality of our infrastructure.
• Stay up-to-date on emerging tools and practices in release engineering, observability, and SRE, and bring relevant ideas into Brex's stack.

Skills

Go

Java

Kotlin

Python

CI/CD

Release engineering

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

CloudFormation

Observability

SRE

Data storage design

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Tools

GitHub Actions

CircleCI

Buildkite

Argo

Spinnaker

Jenkins

AWS

GCP

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Brex seeks a Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Release Engineering), to design, build, and operate the core systems powering Brex's release, observability, and incident management. You will partner with product, platform, and operations teams to ensure safe, fast, and scalable releases.

You will work in our San Francisco office in a hybrid model, with a minimum of three coordinated days in the office per week (Mon, Wed, Thu). Up to four weeks per year of remote work available as a perk.