Software Engineer, Data Enablement Platform

Why join us

Brex is the AI-powered spend platform. We help companies spend with confidence with integrated corporate cards, banking, and global payments, plus intuitive software for travel and expenses. Tens of thousands of companies from startups to enterprises — including DoorDash, Flexport, and Compass — use Brex to proactively control spend, reduce costs, and increase efficiency on a global scale.

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

The Engineering team includes Data, IT, Security, and Software, and is responsible for building innovative products and infrastructure for Brex and our customers. We believe that engineers should accelerate the business through technology, and collaborate across multiple teams to accomplish that.

Teams are autonomous, value inclusivity, eager to learn, teach, and constantly improve how things work. The software we build today is the foundation for dozens of Brex systems in the future, so engineers have a strong sense of ownership and accountability and take pride in their craft.

What you’ll do

This position is on our Data Enablement Platform team. The Brex product requires a huge amount of data to power our client experiences. With a largely async architecture, proliferation of services and multiple operations systems, this data originates from many different sources and in different forms. To ensure that our product experience is unbounded in how it leverages this data, the Data Enablement Platform team owns and operates the systems required to deliver it to our clients, and partners with them to create impactful data-backed products. As a DEP team member you will help build Brex’s Data Infrastructure and also work across the entire data stack to help product teams build data backed products.

Responsibilities

• Build, improve and maintain Brex’s data platform and infrastructure: data warehouse & analytics (Snowflake), data streaming (Kafka), replication (CDC) and materialization (Flink), data jobs orchestration (Airflow), data observability, access & governance.
• Partner with Brex’s product teams, data science and analytics teams to help them launch superior products backed by data insights.
• Level up the data competency at Brex through partnership and education.
• Invest in building resilient data architectures, participate in on-call rotations and continuously improve our operational efficiency.

Requirements

• 1-3 years of professional experience in a data infra or data engineering role
• Fluency in Kotlin or Kotlin like development languages, Python
• Experience building and maintaining data infrastructure: warehousing, data replication and ETL pipelines
• Experience with streaming infra like Kafka
• Experience in backend engineering or full-stack development
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, especially working across team boundaries and building XFN relationships
• Must be willing to work in office 2 days a week starting Jan 2025 (non Brazil) or Sept 2025 (Brazil)

Bonus points

• Experience with any of Snowflake, Flink, Airflow, dbt
• Experience collaborating with product teams or building full-stack data backed products