What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior IT Systems Engineer position at Brex?
Why join us
Brex is the AI-powered spend platform. We help companies spend with confidence with integrated corporate cards, banking, and global payments, plus intuitive software for travel and expenses. Tens of thousands of companies from startups to enterprises — including DoorDash, Flexport, and Compass — use Brex to proactively control spend, reduce costs, and increase efficiency on a global scale.
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.
What You’ll Do
The Senior IT Systems Engineer for Corporate Engineering role involves building, integrating, and monitoring internal tooling infrastructure at Brex, focusing on efficient and automated business processes, data-driven decision-making, and integrating internal services, data sources, and SaaS tools. They maintain core systems for authentication, communication, collaboration, and device access, develop SaaS-first solutions for integration and automation, build tools for user self-sufficiency, and provide Tier 3 support as subject matter experts.
Where you’ll work
This role will be based in our San Francisco office. You must be willing to work in the office at least 2 days per week on Wednesday and Thursday. Employees will be able to work remotely for up to 4 weeks per year.
Responsibilities
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 domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Brex via other sources should be ignored.
Brex is the AI-powered spend platform. We help companies spend with confidence with integrated corporate cards, banking, and global payments, plus intuitive software for travel and expenses. Tens of thousands of companies from startups to enterprises — including DoorDash, Flexport, and Compass — use Brex to proactively control spend, reduce costs, and increase efficiency on a global scale.
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.
What You’ll Do
The Senior IT Systems Engineer for Corporate Engineering role involves building, integrating, and monitoring internal tooling infrastructure at Brex, focusing on efficient and automated business processes, data-driven decision-making, and integrating internal services, data sources, and SaaS tools. They maintain core systems for authentication, communication, collaboration, and device access, develop SaaS-first solutions for integration and automation, build tools for user self-sufficiency, and provide Tier 3 support as subject matter experts.
Where you’ll work
This role will be based in our San Francisco office. You must be willing to work in the office at least 2 days per week on Wednesday and Thursday. Employees will be able to work remotely for up to 4 weeks per year.
Responsibilities
- Manage and scale IT infrastructure, services and tooling
- Work with a diverse group of IT partners to optimize our provided services
- Implement new services in support of Information Technologies vision
- Scale our services by implementing configuration as code via Terraform providers or APIs
- Operationalize and upskill IT and its partners by producing documentation and leading training sessions
- Evangelize best practices both internally and externally facing
- 5 years of experience in IT Engineering, or a related field.
- Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment
- Fluency in DevOps Concepts, working with Github, Terraform and configuration as code
- Experience in identity access management and including Okta, SAML, OIDC, OAuth
- Strong problem-solving abilities and a proactive approach to identifying and mitigating security risks and vulnerabilities
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, able to communicate complete technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Advanced knowledge of Intune or enterprise patch management tooling
- Advanced knowledge of Python
- Strong technical writing skills
- Previous experience in an IT support role
- Experience managing macOS or Windows systems at scale
- Familiarity with Github Actions, Tines and Linear
- Experience with Google Workspace administration
- Experience with micro-services-oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs
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 domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Brex via other sources should be ignored.
Salary : $172,000 - $215,000
