Braze

• Our engineers and engineering leaders are tremendously smart and capable. We have a relatively small engineering org considering our scale, and we still manage to ship market-leading features. I learn from my colleagues every day.

• Our approach to engineering management is thoughtful and yields excellent results. Teams are small enough that engineers can have a relationship with their manager, and big enough to facilitate autonomy.

• The company is big enough to have opportunities for huge impact, small enough that a single determined person can deliver the impact, and set up to reward doing so. If this is exciting to you, you'll love Braze.

• Within the engineering org, compensation is highly competitive.

• Sometimes we take the idea of being "self-organizing" and "bottom up" structure too far and end up failing to coordinate or lacking a cohesive vision. This is sometimes slow to be addressed by leadership.

• Some challenges end up being addressed by committee, which makes progress against them glacial.

• We have some technical growing pains as we emerge from our startup era and target our Fortune 500 era. I think this is expected and creates massive growth opportunities, but it is not always fun to deal with.

We must shore up processes which enable us to move faster on critical cross-functional priorities, reduce siloing, and improve the cohesiveness of our execution.