Klaviyo

Software Engineer II, Platform Engineering

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3 months ago
Dublin, IrelandMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Ship foundational platform services that help engineering teams move faster with confidence.
  • Design and develop platform primitives involving infrastructure, databases, queuing, and related core services.
  • Deliver software that improves platform availability, scalability, latency, and cost efficiency.
  • Design and develop systems and processes that enable highly available and scalable applications.
  • Use Python, Go, AWS, and Kubernetes to advance the engineering platform.
  • Build performance-focused, self-healing systems with configuration as code and defensive programming practices.
  • Identify and implement cost-optimization opportunities through infrastructure right-sizing, improved resource utilization, and platform tooling.

Requirements

  • BA or BS degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • At least 3 years of experience operating and scaling complex distributed systems.
  • Experience working in a cloud-native environment.
  • Proven application development experience in Python and/or Go.
  • 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.
  • Exposure to or interest in measuring and optimizing infrastructure cost and efficiency.
  • Familiarity with high-volume data processing and storage systems and OLTP and OLAP databases.
  • Exposure to technologies such as ClickHouse, DynamoDB, MySQL, Kafka, Spark, Flink, Iceberg, or Airflow is a plus.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of €76,000–€114,000 EUR, with potential bonus, equity, sign-on payments, and health, welfare, and wellbeing benefits.
  • Up to 10% travel may be required, coordinated in advance, for onboarding, client or partner work, team meetings, and industry events.

Tech Stack

Amazon DynamoDBApache AirflowApache FlinkApache KafkaApache SparkAWSClickHouseGoKubernetesLinuxMySQLPython

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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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