Senior Software Engineer - Data Platform
About The Position
Klaviyo is growing rapidly and is seeking Senior Software Engineers to join their Data Platform team. This role involves designing, building, and maintaining mission-critical data and analytics infrastructure for a real-time data platform built for massive scale on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The team focuses on building tooling, establishing best practices, and making technology choices to power core Klaviyo functionality and generate data-driven insights. Engineers on this team will work cross-functionally, write technical design documents, create system infrastructure, write high-quality code, and operate large-scale systems in production. They will also review designs and code from other engineers and provide technical mentorship.
Requirements
- BA or BS Degree in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent experience
- 7+ years of experience in a software engineering discipline
- Highly skilled in using at least one modern programming language
- Experience provisioning infrastructure using Terraform or a similar infrastructure as code tool
- Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems in a cloud computing environment
- Experience using Linux operating systems
- Experience with OLTP and OLAP databases
- Experience with high volume data processing and storage systems
- Able to communicate well, both verbally and in writing
- Able to work with others on a team
- Able to learn continuously and adapt to a high growth environment
- Able to stick with and solve difficult problems
Responsibilities
- Designing, building, and maintaining mission critical data and analytics infrastructure.
- Working with a cross-functional team to write technical design documents.
- Creating system infrastructure.
- Writing high quality code.
- Operating large scale systems in production.
- Reviewing other engineer’s designs and code.
- Providing technical mentorship to other engineers on the team and in the broader engineering organization.
Benefits
- Annual cash bonus plan
- Equity
- Sign-on payments
- Comprehensive range of health, welfare, and wellbeing benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Associate degree
