Software Engineer II - Groups

Klaviyo • Boston, MA

39d • $116,000 - $174,000

About The Position

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.
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 Groups Team is responsible for the segmentation and audience creation functionality 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 with our powerful segmentation engine. They can then send messages to those audiences or use them as a basis for reporting and analytics. We process billions of segment updates in real-time every day.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in a software engineering discipline
• Highly skilled in using at least one modern programming language
• Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems in a cloud computing environment
• Experience with OLTP and OLAP databases
• schema design
• normalization / denormalization trade-offs
• performance
• operations
• Experience with high volume data processing and storage systems
• Experience using Linux operating 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
• BA or BS Degree in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

• As an engineer on this team, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining systems to support core product areas in Klaviyo.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level