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Senior Lead Software Engineer - Developer Infrastructure

1 month, 1 week ago
United States
Full-time
Lead
Infrastructure Engineer
Software Development
Apache Airflow Apache Spark AWS Azure Buildkite ClickHouse Django Docker FastAPI GCP Go Jest Kafka Kubernetes Microservices MySQL PostgreSQL Python RabbitMQ React Redis Terraform TypeScript
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Klaviyo

Klaviyo

Klaviyo offers intelligent email marketing, SMS, and automation services for ecommerce businesses, empowering brands to personalize customer interactions and drive growth.

IT Services
1K-5K
Founded 2012
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Description

  • Define the technical strategy and architectural roadmap for the Klaviyo backend and Dev Infrastructure domain.
  • Own the architecture, health, and dependencies of the Klaviyo codebase with a focus on backend systems.
  • Lead dependency management efforts, including analysis, optimization, risk assessment, and contingency planning for backend and third-party dependencies.
  • Oversee planning and rollout of major software releases and platform upgrades from design through production deployment.
  • Drive improvements in developer productivity by reducing toil and improving cycle-time metrics such as PR CI speed, code review pickup time, and commit velocity.
  • Act as a technical expert for diagnosing and resolving complex performance, scalability, and reliability issues.
  • Implement proactive monitoring and telemetry to detect and prevent platform issues before they become critical incidents.
  • Mentor senior and lead engineers and support skill development within the organization.
  • Collaborate with product managers, security teams, hardware engineers, and other stakeholders to align requirements and resolve conflicts.
  • Evaluate emerging technologies, tools, and practices to improve systems and internal processes.

Requirements

  • 12 years of experience in software development.
  • Strong knowledge of computer science fundamentals and domain-driven design.
  • Extensive expertise in architectural patterns, especially within distributed systems.
  • BA or BS degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • Deep expertise in programming languages such as Go and Python.
  • Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Experience with containerization technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker.
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.
  • Demonstrated experience contributing to product and platform vision and defining strategy for long-term organizational needs.
  • Strong understanding of software architecture, design patterns, and system integration across multiple teams.
  • Exceptional problem-solving, analytical, leadership, and communication skills.
  • Experience experimenting with AI in work or personal projects and interest in learning and using AI tools responsibly.
  • Preferred experience with Pants, FastAPI, Django, React, Terraform, and Buildkite.
  • Preferred background in performance optimization.
  • Preferred familiarity with complex data management for testing, including large datasets and production-like data replication.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $216,000 to $324,000 USD for U.S. locations.
  • Participation in the annual cash bonus plan.
  • Potential equity compensation and sign-on payments.
  • Comprehensive health, welfare, and wellbeing benefits, subject to eligibility.
  • Support for flexible travel up to 10% for onboarding, team meetings, client or partner work, and industry events.
  • Opportunity to work within a company that supports accommodations for responsible AI use.
  • Equal opportunity and non-discrimination hiring policy.

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