Engineering Manager, Developer Infrastructure
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Job Location:
Boston, NH - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
2 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
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 Developer Infrastructure team at Klaviyo is at the heart of our engineering organization dedicated to accelerating Klaviyo development. We build and maintain the paved path that allows engineers to maximize their focus on business objectives by minimizing time spent on build and deployment systems foundational software building blocks and development environments. Our core pillars are Speed Quality and AI Enablement aiming to empower engineers with efficient high-quality tools that enhance productivity and drive business growth. We are committed to fostering open communication and collaboration with our internal customers the engineers.
What Youll Do
As an Engineering Manager of Developer Infrastructure you will be responsible for leading a team focused on delivering a world-class developer experience. Your role will involve:
- Strategic Leadership: Define the technical vision and roadmap for developer infrastructure aligning with Klaviyos overarching engineering and business goals.
- Enhance Developer Productivity: Drive initiatives to improve platform cycle time metrics across the board including PR CI Speed Human Code Review Pickup Time and Commit Velocity by Repo. This involves a relentless focus on reducing toil and increasing engineering efficiency.
- Optimize Development Environments: Champion the improvement of local development environments addressing challenges such complex service setups and ephemeral test environments.
- Platform Ownership: Oversee platform and dependency upgrades for our major languages ensuring performance security and developer efficiency.
- Streamline CI/CD Pipelines: Lead the evolution of our Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
Team Management: You will own the day-to-day operations team mentoring and coaching and help the engineers on your team grow their careers.
What Youll Bring To succeed in this role you should possess a combination of strong technical expertise and proven leadership abilities:
- Experience: 5 years of experience in software engineering with at least 2 years in a Senior Management or similar role preferably in developer infrastructure or platform engineering. Experience leading other engineering managers.
- Technical Acumen: Deep understanding of modern software development practices including CI/CD local development environments and cloud infrastructure (AWS).
- Programming Languages: You are expected to be hands-on in the code base as an occasional contributor and frequent reviewer; you should have proficiency in Python Typescript and/or Go as these are primary languages in our environments.
- Distributed Systems: Experience with Kubernetes (K8s) and related deployment platforms.
- Problem Solver: A track record of diagnosing and solving complex technical challenges related to developer workflows build systems and testing.
- Leadership & Mentorship: Ability to inspire mentor and grow a team of highly skilled engineers fostering a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.
- Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills to articulate technical strategies influence stakeholders and facilitate cross-functional collaboration.
- 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.
Nice to Have
- Experience with specific tools such as Pants FastAPI Django React Terraform Buildkite.
- Background in performance optimization
- Familiarity with complex data management for testing including large datasets and production-like data replication.
- Experience with front-end development workflows particularly with React and tools like Cypress or Jest in Fender.
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Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- IT Experience
- Project Management Methodology
- Data Center Experience
- LAN
- Cloud Infrastructure
- Computer Networking
- Visio
- ITIL
- Project Management
- SAN
- Microsoft Project
- Project Management Lifecycle
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.
