Senior Software Engineer - CICD

Klaviyo • Boston, MA

23h

About The Position

Why You Should Join the Developer Infrastructure Team Our core focus is empowering engineers to ship code efficiently and safely. We own the CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation that drastically improves developer productivity. As the Lead for this team, you will define the technical roadmap for the software pipeline from idea to delivery, enabling every engineer in the company to ship at terminal velocity with total confidence. By building the foundational tools that streamline the path to production, you will play a pivotal role in maximizing developer throughput, minimizing deployment friction, and ensuring our organization can move fast without the fear of breaking things. What You'll Achieve: Key Responsibilities As a Senior Software Engineer for this team, you will drive the evolution of our CI/CD pipeline to enable seamless development and deployments across the organization: Scalable Tooling & Coverage: Design and build the next generation of tools that simplify CI/CD pipelines. You will lead efforts to help bring all teams and repos up to best in class standards at scale . Set Engineering Standards: Contribute to the standards for our repositories. You will refine the benchmarks for PRs, cycle time, velocity, code quality metrics, and systemic reliability that all teams will follow. AI-Driven Strategy: Spearhead our efforts to leverage AI within the CI/CD lifecycle as well as using AI to accelerate our own development efforts. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with internal users to understand their use cases and help roll out and act as a consultant for teams to enable them to leverage the best known good CI/CD workflows. Operational Excellence: Oversee the health and performance of our entire CI/CD pipeline, taking responsibility for the stability of the environment that hundreds of engineers rely on daily. What Makes This Role Exciting High-Leverage Leadership: You are not just building features; you are building the platform that defines the developer experience for the entire company. Innovation at the Edge: You will have the autonomy to experiment with emerging technologies like AI and LLMs to solve the age-old problems of flakiness and slow feedback loops. Who You Are: Analytical Problem Solver: You have 5+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on writing clean, maintainable code. You excel at debugging complex issues and performing root-cause analysis, using those learnings to implement systemic improvements that prevent future regressions. Master of Root-Cause Analysis: You don't just fix symptoms; you hunt down systemic failures. You excel at debugging deep-stack issues and transforming those lessons into automated preventions. Technical Generalist: You are comfortable working across the stack. Whether it is debugging a React component in an E2E test or optimizing a Python integration test, you are ready to dive in. AI Visionary: You are passionate about the intersection of AI and Software Quality. You have a clear perspective on how AI can automate the mundane parts of testing and accelerate the SDLC. Extreme Ownership: You take pride in the end-to-end health of the platform. You are proactive in identifying technical debt and are a relentless advocate for engineering excellence. CI/CD Expert: You have deep experience with modern CI/CD tools and a sophisticated understanding of how to integrate automated testing into high-frequency deployment pipelines. Technologies we use (not exhaustive): Backend: Python, Django, Go Frontend: React, TypeScript, JavaScript Testing Frameworks: Playwright, Cypress, Pytest, Jest Infrastructure and CI: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Buildkite Data: MySQL, Redis, Kafka AI Tools: Integration with Claude, Cursor, Copilot, or internal AI enablement frameworks We use Covey as part of our hiring and / or promotional process. For jobs or candidates in NYC, certain features may qualify it as an AEDT. As part of the evaluation process we provide Covey with job requirements and candidate submitted applications. We began using Covey Scout for Inbound on April 3, 2025. Please see the independent bias audit report covering our use of Covey here

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on writing clean, maintainable code.
• Excel at debugging complex issues and performing root-cause analysis, using those learnings to implement systemic improvements that prevent future regressions.
• Excel at debugging deep-stack issues and transforming those lessons into automated preventions.
• Comfortable working across the stack.
• Passionate about the intersection of AI and Software Quality.
• Have a clear perspective on how AI can automate the mundane parts of testing and accelerate the SDLC.
• Take pride in the end-to-end health of the platform.
• Proactive in identifying technical debt and are a relentless advocate for engineering excellence.
• Have deep experience with modern CI/CD tools and a sophisticated understanding of how to integrate automated testing into high-frequency deployment pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the next generation of tools that simplify CI/CD pipelines.
• Lead efforts to help bring all teams and repos up to best in class standards at scale
• Contribute to the standards for our repositories.
• Refine the benchmarks for PRs, cycle time, velocity, code quality metrics, and systemic reliability that all teams will follow.
• Spearhead our efforts to leverage AI within the CI/CD lifecycle as well as using AI to accelerate our own development efforts.
• Work closely with internal users to understand their use cases and help roll out and act as a consultant for teams to enable them to leverage the best known good CI/CD workflows.
• Oversee the health and performance of our entire CI/CD pipeline, taking responsibility for the stability of the environment that hundreds of engineers rely on daily.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed