Senior Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

Klaviyo is a company that empowers creators to own their destiny by making first-party data accessible and actionable. The Senior Software Engineer in Platform Engineering will focus on developing foundational platform services and improving developer experience, enabling engineering teams to work more efficiently.

Responsibilities:

• Ship foundational services to enable Klaviyo engineering to move faster with confidence
• Build a deep understanding of engineering needs across the organization, guiding the design and development of appropriate platform primitives (Infra, Databases, Queuing, etc), that align with the platform's vision and practically empower product teams
• Design, develop, and deliver software to dramatically improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Klaviyo's core platforms, helping teams to better serve customers and meet their SLOs
• Design and develop systems and processes that enable highly available and scalable applications
• Leverage technology such as Python, Go, AWS, and Kubernetes to advance Klaviyo's platform
• Mentor and pair with other Klaviyo engineers to build better software by focusing on performance, self-healing systems, configuration as code, and defensive programming