About this role
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 klaviyo.com/careers to see how we empower creators to own their own destiny.
About Klaviyo
Klaviyo is a leading marketing automation platform that helps businesses grow by delivering personalized experiences. Our mission is to empower creators to own their destiny. We believe in providing an exceptional developer experience that enables our engineering teams to build and ship high-quality software efficiently and with confidence.
About the Team
The Messaging Infra organization at Klaviyo is focused on high-growth customer engagement through various messaging channels (email, SMS/MMS/RCS, mobile push, WhatsApp, and more). We work with multiple stakeholders to provide best-in-class service and reliability to connect a wide range of businesses, from entrepreneurs to enterprises, with their end users. The messaging platform is a mission-critical system, responsible for delivering billions of messages, and must be architected for massive scale and reliability.
How You Will Make a Difference
• In this role, you will own and build features/services that hundreds of thousands of Klaviyo customers rely on daily to drive their business forward.
• Work on crafting our highly-scalable, highly-available campaign pipeline that processes and delivers hundreds of millions of messages daily growing to billions scale.
• Collaborate radically with teams and stakeholders across Klaviyo on designs, implementations, and engineering practices.
• Learn new technologies, bring them to the team and apply them to evolve our systems to the next level.
• Help us improve our experimentation and development processes, and mentor other engineers on the team.
• Participate in the technical interview process to help maintain a high bar for our growing teams
• Contribute to the company as a subject matter expert, constantly pushing yourself to be a better engineer and to level up all of your peers within your team and within Klaviyo.
Who You Are
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production distributed systems.
• Deep fluency in at least one backend language (Python, Go, Java, Scala, or similar) and comfort navigating large, complex codebases.
• Experience on large-scale system architecture, technologies and patterns. Have a good understanding of their pros/cons and use scenarios, able to apply them to system design by making appropriate tradeoffs to meet the business needs best.
• Love digging into performance and scalability issues to drive breakthro