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Klaviyo

Lead Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

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about 6 hours ago
Boston, MA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$176k - $264k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build a deep understanding of engineering needs across the organization.
  • Set the technical vision and long-term roadmap for core platform services.
  • Own the design, development, and evolution of foundational platform primitives.
  • Lead cross-team initiatives to improve availability, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
  • Identify systemic gaps and architectural bottlenecks, delivering solutions.
  • Leverage technologies such as Python, Go, AWS, and Kubernetes.
  • Champion best practices including technical design review and defensive programming.
  • Drive cost-optimization efforts across the platform.
  • Mentor senior and mid-level engineers to raise technical quality.
  • Participate in and help evolve on-call practices.

Requirements

  • BA or BS degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 10+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems.
  • Deep, hands-on experience developing production software in Python and/or Go.
  • Extensive experience in cloud-native environments and infrastructure as code.
  • Fundamental understanding of Linux and networking stack.
  • Proven ability to independently own complex, cross-team platform initiatives.
  • Strong track record of mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction.
  • Excellent communication skills for writing technical design docs and RFCs.
  • Comfortable handling complex systems in outage situations.

Tech Stack

Categories

AI & MLBackendData EngineeringDevOps