2 months ago
Base Salary
$148k - $222k/yr
Responsibilities
- Analyze, optimize, and secure backend and third-party dependencies and maintain a healthy dependency graph.
- Plan and execute major software releases, framework upgrades, and production rollouts with hands-on individual contribution.
- Improve developer productivity metrics such as PR CI speed, code-review turnaround, and commit velocity.
- Establish organization-wide standards for code quality, dependency hygiene, and platform reliability.
- Develop and execute an AI-driven strategy for the platform lifecycle and use AI tools to accelerate development.
- Partner with engineers, security teams, and stakeholders to gather requirements and roll out platform changes.
- Monitor platform health, diagnose complex issues, and implement systemic fixes before critical incidents occur.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience.
- Strong computer science fundamentals and experience writing clean, maintainable, well-architected code.
- Experience reasoning about distributed systems, dependency graphs, and platform-level impacts across teams.
- Ability to work across the stack, including debugging Python integrations, optimizing Go services, and wiring infrastructure automation.
- Experience or demonstrated interest in applying AI to software development or personal projects.
- Strong analytical problem-solving skills, end-to-end ownership, and a focus on engineering excellence.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, welfare, and wellbeing benefits based on eligibility.
- Potential annual cash bonus, equity, and sign-on payments in addition to base salary.
- The role may require up to 10% travel for onboarding, client or partner work, team meetings, and industry events, coordinated in advance.
- Klaviyo provides accommodations as needed and is committed to an equal opportunity, inclusive workplace.
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaAWSBuildkiteDjangoFastAPIGoHelmKubernetesMySQLPostgreSQLPythonReactRedisTerraformTypeScript
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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.