Lead Software Engineer Email Platforms
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Job Location:
Boston, NH - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
20 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Why You Should Join the Email Platforms Team:
The Email Platforms team at Klaviyo is building the next generation of infrastructure to support reliable scalable and performant email delivery. Our mission is to help Klaviyo reach enterprise scale by evolving and owning our email sending pipeline end-to-end. Were investing heavily in our homegrown email delivery infrastructure giving us greater control performance and reliability in how we deliver emails for some of the largest brands in the world.
As a Lead Software Engineer on this team youll lead a group of engineers focused on designing and scaling high-throughput email delivery systems. Youll drive the architecture of our messaging infrastructure own critical components of the email pipeline and help shape the technical direction of the team. This is a hands-on role where youll contribute to code design and lead strategy. Your work will directly impact customer satisfaction deliverability and business success as we bring on larger enterprise accounts.
How You Will Make a Difference:
- Lead a team of engineers building and scaling Klaviyos email delivery infrastructure
- Own and drive the architecture of key components in the email pipeline
- Design and implement scalable high-throughput services in Go and Python
- Build systems that manage message queues and ensure reliable email delivery at scale
- Contribute directly to architecture and code driving best practices and quality
- Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure the highest standards of performance reliability and deliverability
- Grow and mentor engineers while helping shape the future of email infrastructure at Klaviyo
- Transform workflows by putting AI at the center building smarter systems and ways of working from the ground up
Who You Are:
- 8 years of engineering experience with strong backend and systems design skills
- Proficient in Go and Python (required)
- Comfortable coding and reviewing complex systems this is a hands-on role
- Experienced working with high-throughput distributed systems
- Familiar with message queues (e.g. Pulsar Kafka RabbitMQ SQS)
- Skilled in system design and scaling infrastructure using AWS
- Bonus: Experience with email infrastructure MTAs deliverability or mailops
- Clear communicator and collaborative team player
- Able to thrive in a hybrid team(with some remote team members) and deliver in a high-autonomy environment
- Youve already experimented with AI in work or personal projects and youre excited to dive in and learn fast. Youre hungry to responsibly explore new AI tools and workflows finding ways to make your work smarter and more efficient.
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Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Spring
- .NET
- C/C++
- Go
- React
- OOP
- C#
- Data Structures
- JavaScript
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
About Company
Klaviyo unifies AI-powered email marketing and SMS to drive growth, retention, and measurable results. Build personalized, omnichannel experiences across WhatsApp, ecommerce, and more with K:AI Agents.
