Incident Manager

At Braze, we have found our people. We’re a genuinely approachable, exceptionally kind, and intensely passionate crew. We seek to ignite that passion by setting high standards, championing teamwork, and creating work-life harmony as we collectively navigate rapid growth on a global scale while striving for greater equity and opportunity – inside and outside our organization. To flourish here, you must be prepared to set a high bar for yourself and those around you. There is always a way to contribute: Acting with autonomy, having accountability and being open to new perspectives are essential to our continued success. Our deep curiosity to learn and our eagerness to share diverse passions with others gives us balance and injects a one-of-a-kind vibrancy into our culture. If you are driven to solve exhilarating challenges and have a bias toward action in the face of change, you will be empowered to make a real impact here, with a sharp and passionate team at your back. If Braze sounds like a place where you can thrive, we can’t wait to meet you. WHAT YOU'LL DO Braze is at an inflection point in our maturity, where a key focus of our work is on Scalability, Observability, and Reusability. Reporting to our Head of Incident Management, you’ll focus on major incident management, process management, program management, and release management. The Technology Operations Team is focused on ensuring that Braze is operating as a technology-first business, with process, policy, and support in place to manage growth and scale. You’ll be ensuring that programs and processes that span or are required by multiple engineering departments are standardized, followed, and improved over time. Main responsibilities: Creating, communicating, and executing the incident response strategy and actions for low level incidents and release regressions (spanning Security, IT, DevOps, and Product Engineering) Incident Commanding - Driving resolution of incidents by closely partnering and collaborating with Engineering, Technical Support, and Customer Success. Lead and contribute projects to improve tools and processes related to manageability, observability, resiliency Overseeing the incident management process and team members involved in resolving the incident Prioritizing incidents according to their urgency and influence on the business Contribute to our blameless post-mortem process, driving prioritization of action items related to site reliability and resiliency Understand and translate technical information and issues into business cases, impacts, and risks that can easily be interpreted by the customer Leads the daily release process as part of a release management team Escalate and manages release related issues through to resolution WHO YOU ARE Experience in incident management, operations, or technical support experience Able to effectively communicate critical issue status (both verbally and written) to executive staff, go to market teams, and other involved parties Are able to effectively build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders across the business Ability to lead, make decisions, problem solve and work within teams. Can demonstrate flexibility and agility to move between role types within teams Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment Experience leading technical incidents and driving them to resolution, whether as part of an on-call team or as an incident manager A strong technical background and experience with specific tools for reporting, documentation, and observability (Jira, Confluence, Datadog, or the equivalent) A good foundational understanding of release management concepts, DevOps, and SRE You have a high degree of operational excellence, use data-driven decision-making to minimize risk, and love building and managing against reports and data. #LI-Hybrid WHAT WE OFFER Braze benefits vary by location, and we encourage you to review our specific benefits offerings for each count