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Requirements

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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.

, provider integrations, and global deliverability. This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you'll contribute to architecture, code, and mentorship while shaping the future of messaging at Klaviyo.

About The Team

The Messaging Infra organization at Klaviyo is focused on high-growth customer engagement through various messaging channels (email, SMS/MMS/RCS, mobile push, WhatsApp, and more). We work with multiple stakeholders to provide best-in-class service and reliability to connect a wide range of businesses, from entrepreneurs to enterprises, with their end users. The messaging platform is a mission-critical system, responsible for delivering billions of messages, and must be architected for massive scale and reliability.

As a Lead Software Engineer in the Messaging Infrastructure organization, you'll provide technical leadership to a group of engineers building and scaling the services that power Klaviyo's messaging pipeline end-to-end.

Who You Are

8+ years of engineering experience with strong backend and distributed systems design skills Proficient in Python and/or Go, and able to pick up the other quickly Experienced with large-scale system architecture — familiar with the tradeoffs involved and able to apply them against real business constraints Comfortable contributing to architecture and code directly; this is a hands-on role Skilled in scaling infrastructure on AWS Strong product and business mindset — you think beyond the code to understand customer impact Self-directed and delivery-focused — you ship incremental value and iterate Clear communicator who thrives in a high-autonomy, cross-functional environment You've already experimented with AI in your work or personal projects and are excited to keep pushing on that Technologies we use (not exhaustive): Languages Frameworks: Python, Django, React Data Infrastructure: MySQL, Redis, Memcached, Apache Zookeeper, Apac

Lead Software Engineer, Messaging Infrastructure