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# Software Engineer

- **Company:** Braze
- **Location:** Austin, TX, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $232,200.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Distributed Systems, Data Streaming, ReactJS, Kotlin, Apache Kafka, Confluent, Microservices
- **Published:** September 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/braze/jobs/8226918

## About the Role

* 5+ years of full-stack development experience
 * Experience building foundational systems at scale and spearheading software projects that significantly advanced the goals of your organization
 * Leads by example. Excellent at mentoring engineers. Makes your colleagues better
 * Self-starter with great communication and organizational skills and experience working in a highly collaborative team environment
 * Experience with Kafka at scale, or comparable technology
 * Professional experience working with distributed systems and/or microservices
 * Bonus if you've worked with Java, Kotlin, Confluent, or React

## Description

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer for our Currents team, responsible for building, maintaining, and evolving Currents, our data export system at scale. The Currents system is a robust Kafka-based event pipeline handling tens of billions of messages daily that our customers leverage to analyze user behavior in near real-time.

You'll be a key engineer on a highly collaborative and skilled team, responsible for bringing projects from concept to production and improving our existing high-scale systems. You will be leveraging your past experiences, your skills, and a strong sense of teamwork to tackle the significant engineering challenges of running a critical data streaming system.