Position Title: Senior Software Engineer
About the Team: Profile data is the bedrock upon which Klaviyos entire product ecosystem is built. The Profiles Identity and Consent teams tackle massive distributed systems challenges operating at a breathtaking scalestoring tens of billions of records and processing billions of reads and writes every single day. We own the highly available platform that defines who a customer is and how they can be reached. By partnering with data warehousing segmentation and messaging teams you will architect the foundational data pipelines that power Klaviyos core product capabilities worldwide.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and operate scalable distributed systems for identity resolution and consent
- Collaborate cross-functionally to translate requirements into robust technical designs
- Author technical design docs and service contracts for operational excellence
- Participate in on-call rotations to continuously improve system reliability
- Provide technical mentorship and conduct thoughtful code and design reviews
- Delegate implementation to AI agents by defining clear intent and rigorously verifying outputs for security and correctness
Required Skills:
- 7 years of software engineering experience with strong computer science fundamentals
- Expertise in building backend service-oriented applications and REST/gRPC APIs
- Hands-on experience scaling distributed systems for performance and consistency.
- Proficiency with streaming and batch processing systems
- Production experience with relational database schema design and optimization
- Excellent communication skills for leading execution and driving team alignment
- BA/BS in Computer Science a related field or equivalent practical experience
- Expertise in agentic AI workflows to safely increase development throughput while preserving architectural coherence
Team Tech Stack:
- Languages: Python SQL Golang
- Databases: Aurora MySQL ProxySQL Redis
- Streaming and Batch: Apache Kafka Pulsar Spark Iceberg
- Infrastructure: AWS Terraform Docker Kubernetes Buildkite
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
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Position Title: Senior Software EngineerAbout the Team: Profile data is the bedrock upon which Klaviyos entire product ecosystem is built. The Profiles Identity and Consent teams tackle massive distributed systems challenges operating at a breathtaking scalestoring tens of billions of records and pr...
Position Title: Senior Software Engineer
About the Team: Profile data is the bedrock upon which Klaviyos entire product ecosystem is built. The Profiles Identity and Consent teams tackle massive distributed systems challenges operating at a breathtaking scalestoring tens of billions of records and processing billions of reads and writes every single day. We own the highly available platform that defines who a customer is and how they can be reached. By partnering with data warehousing segmentation and messaging teams you will architect the foundational data pipelines that power Klaviyos core product capabilities worldwide.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and operate scalable distributed systems for identity resolution and consent
- Collaborate cross-functionally to translate requirements into robust technical designs
- Author technical design docs and service contracts for operational excellence
- Participate in on-call rotations to continuously improve system reliability
- Provide technical mentorship and conduct thoughtful code and design reviews
- Delegate implementation to AI agents by defining clear intent and rigorously verifying outputs for security and correctness
Required Skills:
- 7 years of software engineering experience with strong computer science fundamentals
- Expertise in building backend service-oriented applications and REST/gRPC APIs
- Hands-on experience scaling distributed systems for performance and consistency.
- Proficiency with streaming and batch processing systems
- Production experience with relational database schema design and optimization
- Excellent communication skills for leading execution and driving team alignment
- BA/BS in Computer Science a related field or equivalent practical experience
- Expertise in agentic AI workflows to safely increase development throughput while preserving architectural coherence
Team Tech Stack:
- Languages: Python SQL Golang
- Databases: Aurora MySQL ProxySQL Redis
- Streaming and Batch: Apache Kafka Pulsar Spark Iceberg
- Infrastructure: AWS Terraform Docker Kubernetes Buildkite
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
Required Experience:
Senior IC
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