Senior Software Engineer- Event Query
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.
Klaviyo is growing fast and we have openings for all skill levels across all of our teams. Learn more about our engineering culture at https://klaviyo.tech
We love tackling tough engineering problems and look for Engineers who specialize in certain areas but are passionate about building, owning & scaling features end to end from scratch and breaking through any obstacle or technical challenge in their way. We push each other to move out of our comfort zone, learn new technologies and work hard to ensure each day is better than the last.
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.
Team Overview:
The Event-Query team has a charter to help unlock the value of customer-data collected by Klaviyo Analytics Platform. The team is responsible for providing equitable, unified and optimized access to various data stores in Klaviyo Analytics Platform. We design and implement APIs that are accessed by external customers as well as internal teams to gain valuable insights into customer behaviors and build intelligent applications based on these insights.
Responsibilities:
This team manages a foundational piece of Klaviyo infrastructure. You will have ownership over designing foundational components within the greater technical vision of Klaviyo’s data storage and access system.
As a senior engineer on this team, you will be responsible for mentoring engineers, taking new components of our data access system from design to release. You will directly contribute to both writing the code for new components and effectively delegating implementation work as needed.
Team Tech Stack:
Python/Django/FlaskGRPC/ProtobufsKubernetesClickhouse/MySQL/Cassandra databasesRedisAWS
Required Skills:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
- 4 years of experience in software development, and strong knowledge of computer science fundamentals
- 3 years of experience testing, developing, and launching software products, and 1 years of experience with software design and architecture
- Hands-on experience designing reliable, fault-tolerant, and high performance distributed systems
- Proven ability to come up to speed quicklyÂ
Preferred Skills:
- Professional experience using:
- API development
- Python/Django/Flask
- GRPC/Protobufs
- Apache Kafka/Parquet/Spark/Hive
- AWS services (S3/EKS/EMR)
- Exposure large scale distributed system
- Exposure to distributed SQL engine (trino, apache-impala)
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
08/30/2023
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