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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 are passionate about building, owning, and scaling features 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 written in Python and 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.
The Profiles and Segmentation Team is responsible for two foundational product areas in Klaviyo. We process and store all of our customer’s data about their customers (profiles) and we allow them to group those profiles into audiences for use with message sending or analytics with our powerful segmentation engine. We manage over 9 billion profile records and process billions of segment updates in real-time every day.
Responsibilities
As an engineer on this team, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining systems to support two core product areas in Klaviyo. As a Lead Engineer you will help drive the team forward and set the technical direction of these systems. You will work with a cross functional team to help refine feature specifications, write technical design documents, create system infrastructure, write high quality code, and operate large scale systems in production. You will also review other engineer’s designs and code, and provide technical mentorship to other engineers on the team and in the broader engineering organization.
Team Tech Stack
- Python
- Django
- React
- MySQL
- ProxySQL
- Redis
- Memcached
- RabbitMQ
- Kafka
Required Skills
- Highly skilled in using at least one modern programming language
- 7+ years of experience in a software engineering discipline
- Significant experience with full stack application development
- Experience with distributed systems
- Experience performance tuning and scaling systems
- Experience with SQL databases (either MySQL or PostgreSQL)
- schema design
- normalization / denormalization trade-offs
- performance
- operations
- Experience using Linux operating systems
- Experience with high volume data processing and storage systems
- Able to communicate well
- Able to work with others on a team
- Able to provide technical mentorship to more junior engineers
- Able to learn continuously and adapt to a high growth environment
- Able to stick with and solve difficult problems
Get to Know Klaviyo
Klaviyo is a world-leading marketing automation platform dedicated to accelerating revenue and customer connection for online businesses. Klaviyo makes it easy to store, access, analyze and use transactional and behavioral data to power highly-targeted customer and prospect communications. The company’s hybrid customer-data and marketing-platform model allows companies to grow by fostering direct relationships with customers, without giving up their valuable data to popular big-tech ad platforms. Over 265,000 innovative companies like Unilever, Custom Ink, Living Proof and Huckberry sell more with Klaviyo. Learn more at www.klaviyo.com.
If you are a Colorado or New York City resident and this role is a remote role, you can receive additional information about the compensation and benefits for this role, which we will provide upon request. Requests can be submitted here. Additional information regarding benefits can be found here.
Klaviyo is committed to diversity and to a policy of equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
