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# Staff Software Engineer, Product Data Platform

- **Company:** Brex Inc.
- **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $240,000.0 - $300,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Query Performance, Java (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, Relational Databases, Distributed Systems, Elasticsearch, Java Virtual Machine (JVM), PostgreSQL, Data Streaming, Database Optimization, Kotlin, Apache Flink, Apache Kafka, OpenSearch
- **Published:** November 1, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/7fe1a288-ddaf-4db5-a933-369fcabeaa9c

## About the Role

* 8+ years of backend engineering experience building and operating production systems at scale, including as a technical leader on multi-team initiatives.
 * Track record of leading architecture and delivery for large-scale distributed systems in a platform or infrastructure environment.
 * Deep hands-on expertise with relational databases (Postgres or Aurora strongly preferred), including query plan analysis, indexing strategies, and real-world optimization.
 * Ability to drive ambiguous, cross-cutting problems to resolution without a defined charter.
 * Strong written and verbal communication, with the ability to influence stakeholders and align teams without direct authority.
 * Experience mentoring senior engineers.

Bonus

 * Hands-on experience with OpenSearch / Elasticsearch or similar systems in production.
 * Experience with streaming data platforms (Flink, Kafka) or semantic/analytics layers in production.
 * Experience with multi-tenant or data-heavy platforms in regulated environments.
 * Experience building platform foundations for AI or agentic product experiences.

## Description

As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll shape the technical direction of the platform across multiple teams. Your mandate is to identify the highest-impact architectural problems across the data products group, including the cross-cutting ones that fall between teams, and drive them to resolution. You'll be accountable for the group's technical quality, move between long-horizon strategy and hands-on execution, and lead through influence rather than authority.

Where you'll work

This role will be based in our Seattle 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, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday.

As a perk, we also have up to four weeks per year of fully remote work!

Responsibilities

 * Lead technical strategy for critical PDP initiatives, balancing long-term architecture with near-term delivery across multiple teams.
 * Identify and resolve systemic performance, consistency, and scalability problems, including cross-team gaps no single team can own.
 * Own architecture direction for query performance: query plans, execution paths, cost models, indexing strategies, and schema and access-pattern design.
 * Design and evolve distributed systems with thoughtful tradeoffs around consistency, latency, caching, cost, and failure modes.
 * Raise the technical bar across the group through design reviews and architecture decisions, and dive in hands-on where it matters most, including P95/P99 latency issues in production.
 * Proactively identify scaling risks and reliability gaps, and turn findings into plans the group aligns behind.
 * Mentor senior engineers and grow the next generation of technical leaders within PDP.
 * Contribute directly on high-stakes initiatives and critical path decisions, primarily in the JVM ecosystem (Kotlin/Java).