Brex
Senior
Senior Software Engineer building Brex's release engineering, observability, and incident-response infrastructure
Design, build, and operate the core systems powering Brex's deployment pipelines, observability, and incident management. Requires 7+ years of backend/infrastructure experience with hands-on CI/CD, Kubernetes/Docker, infrastructure-as-code, and SRE practices like SLIs/SLOs and error budgets. San Francisco hybrid, 3 days/week in office.
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What this interview tests
- CI/CD and release pipeline design (build, test, deploy automation)
- Observability instrumentation tied to incident response
- Kubernetes/Docker and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/CloudFormation)
- SRE practices: SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, MTTR
- Reducing deployment risk and change failure rate at scale
- Mentorship and driving release engineering best practices across teams
Common question themes
Describe a release pipeline you built or improved — how did you measure the impact?
How would you design observability tooling that feeds directly into incident triage?
Walk me through your experience with Kubernetes/Docker and IaC in production
How do you define and enforce SLIs/SLOs and error budgets for a platform team?
Tell me about a complex production incident you debugged cross-functionally
How do you mentor engineers on release engineering and reliability practices?