Senior Software Engineer - Developer Experience
Job Description
At Klaviyo, we value the unique backgrounds, experiences and perspectives each Klaviyo (we call ourselves Klaviyos) brings to our workplace each and every day. We believe everyone deserves a fair shot at success and appreciate the experiences each person brings beyond the traditional job requirements. If you’re a close but not exact match with the description, we hope you’ll still consider applying. Want to learn more about life at Klaviyo? Visit careers.klaviyo.com to see how we empower creators to own their own destiny.
With Klaviyo’s explosive growth, we are looking for a software engineer to help build Klaviyo’s future as a platform for developers. For this, Klaviyo needs to build a robust set of tools giving developers and partners the functionality to extend the Klaviyo ecosystem by building new integrations and applications.
Klaviyo operates a real-time data platform built for massive scale on Amazon Web Services (AWS). 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.
Technologies we use (not exhaustive):
- Python, Java, Node, Typescript, PHP, Ruby
- Django, React, RabbitMQ, Celery, MySQL, Cassandra, Redis, GRPC/Protobufs
- Amazon Web Services (EC2, RDS, Aurora, etc.), Clickhouse, Zookeeper, Pulsar, Terraform, OpenAPI, Swagger CodeGen, Jenkins, Travis and other modern DevOps tools, Kubernetes
Responsibilities
We at Klaviyo want to build the best-in-class experience for developers. This is a newly formed team, so incoming members will be responsible for building the foundation of the developer experience at Klaviyo. You will be building on top of existing tools and also creating net new product features. You will have an opportunity to make a major impact on the direction and priorities of the team.Â
As an engineer on this team, you will be responsible for building and managing Klaviyo’s developer-facing tooling for external developers. This includes API Analytics, Logs & Alerting, API usage anomaly detection, tooling for Migrating to new versions of APIs, reference code/apps, SDKs, CLIs, APIs & Sandbox Infrastructure/Accounts.
Required Skills:
- 5+ years of experience in a software engineering discipline
- Significant experience with full stack application development
- Proficient in Python
- Experience working with both monolithic and microservices architectures
- Experience with building distributed, high scale systems including operational experience in maintaining high availability for these systems. DevXs' systems handle billions of api calls per day.
- Good understanding of REST APIs. Knowledge of GraphQL is a plus
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines
Preferred Skills
- API design & External Developer Experience (in particular experience with deprecating old APIs in favor of new APIs and tooling around the process)
- Experience building auto-generated code and documentation (OpenAPISpec, Swagger-codegen)
- Experience building client-facing, secure, performant APIs
- Experience working on developer experience related products
- Experience with building and managing SDKs, CLIs and reference apps
- Experience building libraries and tools for external/3rd party developers
Get to Know Klaviyo
We’re Klaviyo (pronounced clay-vee-oh). We empower creators to own their destiny by making first-party data accessible and actionable like never before. We see limitless potential for the technology we’re developing to nurture personalized experiences in ecommerce and beyond. To reach our goals, we need our own crew of remarkable creators—ambitious and collaborative teammates who stay focused on our north star: delighting our customers. If you’re ready to do the best work of your career, where you’ll be welcomed as your whole self from day one and supported with generous benefits, we hope you’ll join us.
Upon request, you can receive additional information about the compensation and benefits for this role. Requests can be submitted here. Additional information regarding benefits can be found at klaviyorewards.com.
Klaviyo is committed to a policy of equal opportunity and non-discrimination. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, citizenship, national origin, color, religion or religious creed, age, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, veteran or active military status, marital status, criminal record, genetics, retaliation, sexual harassment or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
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Date Posted
06/13/2023
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