Software Engineer II, Platform Engineering
Core
Design and develop foundational platform services, infrastructure primitives, and tooling to enable Klaviyo engineering teams to build scalable, cost-efficient applications.
Role type
Senior IC Platform Engineer
Builds
Core platform services, infrastructure primitives (Infra, Databases, Queuing), and developer experience tooling
Domain
Ecommerce / Cloud Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Python, Go, Linux, distributed systems, cloud-native environments, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, API gateways, observability, asynchronous processing, high-volume data processing, OLTP/OLAP databases
Preferred skills
ClickHouse, DynamoDB, MySQL, Kafka, Spark, Flink, Iceberg, Airflow, cost optimization
Technologies
Python, Go, AWS, Kubernetes
Responsibilities
Design and develop foundational platform services; contribute to design and development of platform primitives; improve availability, scalability, latency, and cost efficiency of core platforms; design systems for highly available and scalable applications; implement cost-optimization opportunities
Seniority
Mid-Senior, hands-on IC
