Lead Software Engineer - K-ops

Engineers come to Klaviyo with experience in a variety of languages and from a number of disciplines. Our development community is incredibly diverse, so an effective member of this team needs to be comfortable working with any modern programming language across various platforms and environments.

how you’ll make an impact:

• This is a newly formed team, so incoming members will be responsible for building the foundation of how we scale internally at Klaviyo. You will have an opportunity to make a major impact on the direction and priorities of the team.

• As a Lead engineer on this team, you will be responsible for building and managing Klaviyo’s internal tooling working with various stakeholders across the company.

• You will be building a platform for customers which provides them the ability to connect Klaviyo data to downstream systems in an automated manner, in real time at high scale.

• You will make decisions and own outcomes around infrastructure, application logic, documentation, product changes, UI and more

• You will mentor new engineers and lead development of new teams

What We’re looking for: 

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

• 8 years of experience as a Lead software development, and strong knowledge of computer science fundamentals 

• 5 years of experience testing, developing, and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture

• Experience working with both monolithic and microservices architectures

• Hands-on experience designing reliable, fault-tolerant, and high performance distributed systems

• Significant experience with full stack application development

• Experience debugging performance issues and improving application performance

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines

• Proven experience with being a coach and a mentor for team members and helping them grow

Technologies we use (not exhaustive):

• Python, Django, React, RabbitMQ, Celery, MySQL, Cassandra, Redis
• Amazon Web Services (EC2, RDS, Aurora, etc.)Terraform, Grafana, and other modern DevOps toolsPreferred Skills
  
• Experience creating new applications with scalability in mind
• Exposure to large-scale system design
• Experience with AWS