Senior Software Engineer, Release Infra

Why join us

• Brex is the intelligent finance platform that enables companies to spend smarter and move faster in more than 200 markets.
• By combining global corporate cards and banking with intuitive spend management, bill pay, and travel software, Brex enables founders and finance teams to accelerate operations, gain real-time visibility, and control spend effortlessly.
• Brex's AI-native automation and world-class service eliminate manual expense and accounting tasks for customers so they can focus on what matters most.
• Tens of thousands of the world's best companies run on Brex, including DoorDash, Coinbase, Robinhood, Zoom, Plaid, Reddit, and SeatGeek.
• Working at Brex allows you to push your limits, challenge the status quo, and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry.
• We're committed to building a diverse team and inclusive culture and believe your potential should only be limited by how big you can dream.
• We make this a reality by empowering you with the tools, resources, and support you need to grow your career.

Engineering at Brex

• Engineering at Brex is about building systems that scale with speed and intention.
• Our teams span Software, Data, Security, and IT, and operate with high autonomy and deep collaboration.
• We tackle hard technical problems, own our outcomes, and push for excellence at every level — from architecture to deployment.
• It's an environment where engineering is a craft, and builders become leaders.

What you'll do

• As a Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Release Engineering) at Brex, you will design, build, and operate the core systems that power Brex's release, observability, and incident management processes.
• You will partner closely with product, platform, and operations teams to ensure releases are safe, fast, and reliable, and that our infrastructure scales securely as Brex grows.

Where you'll work

• This role will be based in our San Francisco office.
• We are a hybrid environment that combines the energy and connections of being in the office with the benefits and flexibility of working from home.
• We currently require a minimum of three coordinated days in the office per week on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday.
• As a perk, we also have up to four weeks per year of fully remote work!

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

Requirements

• 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

Compensation

• The expected salary range for this role is $192,000 - $240,000.
• However, the starting base pay will depend on a number of factors, including the candidate's location, skills, experience, market demands, and internal pay parity.
• Depending on the position offered, equity and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package.
• Brex LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Capital One, N.A.

Please be aware, job-seekers may be at risk of targeting by malicious actors looking for personal data. Brex recruiters will only reach out via LinkedIn or email with a brex.com domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Brex via other sources should be ignored.