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# Staff Software Engineer, Product Data Platform at Brex

- **Company:** Brex
- **Location:** Seattle Washington, United States
- **Posted:** 2026-02-19
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://www.brex.com/careers/8430197002?gh_jid=8430197002

## Job description

## Why join us

Brex is the intelligent finance platform that enables companies to spend smarter and move faster in more than 200 markets. By combining global corporate cards and banking with intuitive spend management, bill pay, and travel software, Brex enables founders and finance teams to accelerate operations, gain real-time visibility, and control spend effortlessly. Brex’s AI-native automation and world-class service eliminate manual expense and accounting tasks for customers so they can focus on what matters most. Tens of thousands of the world's best companies run on Brex, including DoorDash, Coinbase, Robinhood, Zoom, Plaid, Reddit, and SeatGeek.

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

Engineering at Brex is about building systems that scale with speed and intention. Our teams span Software, Data, Security, and IT, and operate with high autonomy and deep collaboration. We tackle hard technical problems, own our outcomes, and push for excellence at every level — from architecture to deployment. It’s an environment where engineering is a craft, and builders become leaders.

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!

## What you’ll do

This opportunity is on our Product Data Platform (PDP) team, which builds and operates the high-performance data, query, and search infrastructure that powers critical Brex product experiences, including AI-powered data products like our agentic reporting experience. PDP's mission is to make Brex customizable, scalable, and reliable for finance teams, and that requires deeply optimized, production-grade distributed systems.

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.

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).

Requirements:

- 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.

Compensation:

- The expected salary range for this role is $240,000 - $300,000. However, the starting base pay will depend on a number of factors including the candidate’s location, skills, experience, market demands, and internal pay parity.

Brex LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Capital One, N.A. Please be aware, job-seekers may be at risk of targeting by malicious actors looking for personal data. Brex recruiters will only reach out via LinkedIn or email with a [brex.com](http://brex.com/) domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Brex via other sources should be ignored.

## About Brex

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Brex provides a modern finance platform combining corporate cards, expense management, travel booking, banking, and treasury services, all powered by AI-driven automation.
- **Entity Type**: Private (backed by venture capital; last known Series D3 at $12.3B valuation in 2022)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Henrique Dubugras and Pedro Franceschi

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Financial technology (fintech) – specifically spend management, corporate cards, expense automation, and business banking.
- Target customers: B2B – startups, mid-size companies, and enterprises; over 35,000 companies use Brex.
- Mission/purpose statement: "Empower employees anywhere to make better financial decisions."

## Products & Services
- **Corporate Cards**: Physical and virtual corporate cards with built-in spend controls, real-time budgets, and cash back/rewards.
- **Expense Management**: AI-powered automation for receipts, expense reports, and approvals; integrates with ERP systems.
- **Travel**: In-app global travel booking and management with policy enforcement.
- **Bill Pay**: Automated invoice entry, approval workflows, and vendor payments.
- **Banking & Treasury**: Business cash accounts with up to 4.36% yield, same-day liquidity, and up to $6M in additional FDIC insurance.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: $12.3 billion (Series D3, 2022 – recent valuation not disclosed; may have changed)
- **Key Metric**: Over 35,000 businesses use Brex (source: brex.com). Total funding exceeds $1.5 billion (publicly reported, not detailed in provided sources).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Greenoaks, IVP, Tiger Global, Y Combinator, Kleiner Perkins, DST Global, Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, Lone Pine Capital, Ribbit Capital.
- **Growth Signals**: Named #2 on Fast Company’s 2023 Top 50 Disruptors; expanding AI-driven finance automation; 756 hours average time saved per year for customers; 71% of expenses prepared on Brex handled entirely by automation.

## Competitive Advantages
- **All-in-one platform**: Combines cards, expense management, travel, bill pay, and banking in a single stack – reducing the need for multiple vendors.
- **AI-powered automation**: Uses AI to automate receipt capture, expense categorization, approval workflows, and GL coding, enabling faster close.
- **Higher credit limits**: Offers up to 30x higher credit limits compared to traditional providers.
- **Founder-centric culture**: Over 100 Brex alumni have started their own companies (4x industry average), signaling a culture that breeds entrepreneurship.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-first finance**: Continually investing in AI to eliminate manual work (e.g., AI expense assistant, invoice automation).
- **Global expansion**: In-app global travel and multi-entity support for international teams.
- **Enterprise penetration**: Deepening ERP integrations, procurement flows, and vendor-specific card controls for mid-market and enterprise clients.
- **Cash management innovation**: Offering competitive treasury yields to attract and retain deposits.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Emphasizes “Be the founder of your career” – hires people with “grit, autonomy, and ambition” and supports rapid growth. Values include Growth Mindset, Ownership, Customer Obsession, and One Brex.
- **Remote-first**: Committed to remote-first work, with in-office days/offsets for connection and up to 4 fully remote weeks per year. Employees can optimize time and location.
- **Benefits**: Generous parental leave, Carrot Fertility, Milk Stork, medical/dental/vision, Spring Health (mental health), Calm app, generous vacation, and year-end company shutdown.
- **Headcount**: ~800 employees (Built In), 501–1,000 range (The Muse) with 7 offices globally.
- **Engineering focus**: Strong engineering culture visible through “Building Brex” blog and emphasis on automation and AI.

## Sources
1. [brex.com](https://www.brex.com/careers)
2. [brex.com](https://www.brex.com/about)
3. [brex.com](https://www.brex.com/index)
4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/brex/faq/workplace-perception)
5. [themuse.com](https://www.themuse.com/profiles/brex)

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