23 days ago
Base Salary
$148k - $222k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead complex, business-critical IAM projects from design through launch and long-term operation.
- Build secure and reliable services for authentication, authorization, delegation, auditing, and revocation.
- Break ambiguous problems into deliverable work for multiple engineers.
- Own production customer impact, reliability, technical quality, and SLOs.
- Improve IAM architecture as scale, security, and product needs evolve.
- Partner with Security, Product, Platform, and product engineering teams.
- Create reusable IAM patterns for adoption by other engineering teams.
- Mentor engineers and support project contributors.
- Apply engineering and AI tools responsibly and share learnings with the team.
- Take ownership of important unassigned work that accelerates the team.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience building and operating production software.
- Hands-on experience developing production services in Go or Python.
- Experience with authentication, authorization, identity, or related security systems.
- Experience building networking systems, API gateways, APIs, or SDKs.
- Experience leading complex projects spanning multiple engineers and several months.
- Demonstrated end-to-end ownership after software launch.
- Clear communication, cross-team collaboration, practical technical judgment, and mentoring ability.
- Preferred experience with auth or policy systems, secure platforms for engineering teams, AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, React, Django, enterprise security, auditability, data residency, or compliance needs.
Benefits
- Base salary range of $148,000–$222,000 USD, with potential bonus, equity, sign-on payments, and health, welfare, and wellbeing benefits based on eligibility.
- The role may require up to 10% travel for onboarding, client or partner work, team meetings, and industry events, coordinated in advance.
About Klaviyo
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.