Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure Security

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Team Overview The Infrastructure Security team makes it simple and easy for engineers to make secure choices while developing world-class software at high speed. Security is built in by default—seamless and effortless—making engineers’ lives better and Klaviyo more secure. Our work sits at the intersection of security, infrastructure, and software engineering.

We build cloud-native platforms and services that are reliable, secure, and performant at global scale, forming the foundation that Klaviyo engineers rely on every day. This role is for engineers who enjoy building modern distributed systems, care about security and reliability, and want to have real impact across a large engineering organization. How you’ll make an impact As a Senior Software Engineer on the Infrastructure Security team, you will build and operate the systems that help Klaviyo engineers ship secure software with confidence.

Who You Are

You have 6+ years of solid experience building and operating cloud-native, distributed systems in production You are comfortable writing production-quality code in a language such as Python or Go You have hands-on experience with AWS (or a similar cloud provider) and understand managed services, networking, and IAM concepts You have experience working with containers and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes You have experience writing infrastructure as code using languages such as Terraform You are comfortable owning services and features independently, while knowing when to ask for feedback or support You understand the fundamentals of scalable, multi-tenant architectures and secure system design You care about reliability, performance, observability, and security—not just shipping features You are comfortable participating in on-call and responding to production issues You are an excellent communicator and collaborator. You lead technical discussions at the project and product-area level, write clear technical design documents and RFCs, and keep stakeholders aligned on progress, risks, and trade-offs. Ability to handle yourself and complex systems in outage situations and to drive failures to root cause analysis and prevention of future issues.

You’ve already experimented with AI in work or personal projects, and you’re excited to dive in and learn fast.