Klaviyo

Senior Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

Klaviyo
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3 months ago
Boston, MA, USASenior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$148k - $222k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Ship foundational services that help Klaviyo engineering move faster with confidence.
  • Design and develop platform primitives involving infrastructure, databases, queuing, and related core services.
  • Improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of core platforms.
  • Design and develop systems and processes that enable highly available and scalable applications.
  • Use Python, Go, AWS, and Kubernetes to advance the platform.
  • Mentor and pair with engineers while promoting performance, self-healing systems, configuration as code, and defensive programming.

Requirements

  • BA or BS degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years of experience operating and scaling complex distributed systems.
  • Experience working in a cloud-native environment.
  • Proven application development experience in Python and Go.
  • Experience operating Kubernetes at scale.
  • Experience with Terraform.
  • Fundamental understanding of Linux and all layers of the networking stack.
  • Experience in platform-related areas such as Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, API gateways and traffic management, observability, or asynchronous processing tooling.
  • Experience experimenting with AI in work or personal projects and willingness to learn new AI tools and workflows.

Benefits

  • Generous health, welfare, and wellbeing benefits based on eligibility.
  • Required to work in the office five days per week.
  • May require up to 10% travel for onboarding, client or partner work, team meetings, and industry events.
Klaviyo

About Klaviyo

1,001-5,000 employees

Klaviyo builds a subscription SaaS platform that lets e-commerce and consumer brands use first-party data to run targeted email, SMS, and push campaigns, with built-in automation and analytics. The product also includes B2C CRM features for segmentation, A/B testing, and customer lifecycle workflows. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Boston, it is a public company (NYSE: KVYO) used by brands such as Mattel and Glossier.

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