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
Build and scale highly-available, low-latency, high-throughput, event-driven: services that process live messaging events across one or more channels.
Work on Klaviyo's real-time messaging pipeline , processing and delivering: hundreds of millions of messages daily and growing to billions scale, with performance and reliability critical to whether messages reach customers when expected.
Design and implement backend services that handle real-time traffic,: asynchronous processing, queues and streams , making tradeoffs around throughput, latency, reliability and failure handling.
Own and evolve components of a highly-scalable, highly-available campaign: pipeline, from processing and routing through to delivery and status tracking.
Collaborate radically with teams and stakeholders across Klaviyo on designs,: implementations, and engineering practices.
Learn new technologies, bring them to the team and apply them to evolve our systems to the next level.
What they're looking for
- Help us improve our experimentation and development processes, and mentor other engineers on the team.
- Participate in the technical interview process to help maintain a high bar for our growing teams.
- Contribute to the company as a subject matter expert, constantly pushing: yourself to be a better engineer and to level up all of your peers within your team and within Klaviyo.
- + years of professional software engineering experience building and: operating online, real-time distributed systems where latency, throughput and reliable processing matter to customers or downstream services.
