Staff Software Engineer, Product Data Platform
Brex · San Francisco, California, United States
Posted about 3 months ago · $240,000 - $300,000
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 87 days Brex's roles stay open a median of 87 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- Yes 90% of Brex's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Brex
- high 288 stale, 16 reposted of 288 open
- Hiring momentum
- 397 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-29
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Brex's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Brex.
About this role
As a Staff Software Engineer on the Product Data Platform team at Brex, you will lead the technical strategy for high-performance data infrastructure that supports critical product experiences. Your role involves resolving architectural challenges, optimizing distributed systems, and mentoring engineers while balancing long-term goals with immediate delivery. You will work in a hybrid environment, collaborating closely with multiple teams to enhance the platform's scalability and reliability.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- pay transparency
- 5/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Brex as an employer.
What you need
- 8+ years of backend engineering experience building and operating production systems at scale
- 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)
- Ability to drive ambiguous, cross-cutting problems to resolution without a defined charter
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Experience mentoring senior engineers
Nice to have
- 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
What you get
- Up to four weeks per year of fully remote work
- Hybrid work environment requiring a minimum of three coordinated days in the office per week
Worth weighing
- No specific mention of team size or structure
- Role involves significant cross-team collaboration, which may require strong interpersonal skills
- High level of responsibility and influence without direct authority may not suit all candidates
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Listed by Brex on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-29. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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