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Staff Software Engineer, Product Data Platform

Brex · Seattle, Washington, 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

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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 strategy with immediate delivery needs. You will work in a hybrid environment, collaborating with teams to ensure system scalability and reliability.

Our read on this posting3.2out of 5
benefits
1/5
freshness
1/5
career value
4/5
role clarity
5/5
pay transparency
5/5

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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 technologies beyond JVM ecosystem (Kotlin/Java)
  • Salary range provided, but starting pay depends on various factors
  • Role involves significant cross-team collaboration which may require strong interpersonal skills

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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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