The opportunity
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.
What you'll do
Define Architectural Vision: Lead the long-term strategy for our CI/CD pipelines and frameworks across both backend and frontend stacks. You will ensure these systems are not just reliable, but world-class in their ease of adoption.
CI/CD Strategy: Architect how we execute fast, reliable deployments and rollbacks. You will own the end-to-end delivery pipelines, ensuring the highest standards of security, efficiency, and compliance from code commit to production.
Set Engineering Standards: Establish the standards for our repositories. You will define the benchmarks for PRs, cycle time, velocity, code quality metrics, and systemic reliability that all teams will follow.
Scalable Tooling & Coverage: Design and build the next generation of tools that simplify CI/CD pipelines. You will lead efforts to help bring all teams and repos up to best in class standards at scale .
AI-Driven Strategy: Spearhead our efforts to leverage AI within the CI/CD lifecycle as well as using AI to accelerate our own development efforts.
Cross-Functional Leadership: Act as a consultant to feature teams to solve their most complex engineering challenges. You will use root-cause analysis from major incidents to propose and implement pillar-wide velocity improvements.
What they're looking for
- Operational Excellence: Oversee the health and performance of our entire CI/CD pipeline, taking ultimate responsibility for the stability of the environment that hundreds of engineers rely on daily.
- High-Leverage Leadership: You are not just building features; you are building the platform that defines the developer experience for the entire company.
- Innovation at the Edge: You will have the autonomy to experiment with emerging technologies like AI and LLMs to solve the age-old problems of flakiness and slow feedback loops.
- Pillar-Wide Influence: As a Lead, your decisions on testing standards and infrastructure will directly impact the speed and quality of every shipping team in the organization.
