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Klaviyo is growing fast and we have openings for all skill levels across all of our teams. Learn more about our engineering culture at https://klaviyo.tech
We love tackling tough engineering problems and look for Engineers who specialize in certain areas but are passionate about building, owning & scaling features end to end from scratch and breaking through any obstacle or technical challenge in their way. We push each other to move out of our comfort zone, learn new technologies and work hard to ensure each day is better than the last.
Klaviyo operates a real-time data platform coded in Python built for massive scale on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Engineers come to Klaviyo with experience in a variety of languages and from a number of disciplines.
Team Overview:
DevX is a hybrid product–platform team focused on empowering external developers and partners by supporting applications they build on top of Klaviyo’s Public APIs and features. Examples of these areas of ownership include:
- our Application directory, which is used to promote and allow Klaviyo customers to discover applications that they can enable for their account
- the self-serve application process for a Partner to submit an Application and the ability for Klaviyo staff to review and approve an Application
- API Analytics is a system used by developers and partners to diagnose issues in their applications and understand their API usage. It is powered by a near real–time data pipeline that processes over 160,000 events per second.
- Autogenerated API docs, SDKs, CLIs & MCP servers
Responsibilities:
You will have an opportunity to make a major impact on the direction and priorities of the team.
As an engineer on this team, you will work on Klaviyo’s app marketplace, application publishing workflows, and the developer-facing tools and systems that support our app ecosystem. Additional responsibilities include providing quality PR reviews for our code-owned areas of the application, collaborating with product owners and providing technical expertise on upcoming Product Specifications, and participating in the definition of well-defined, estimated, and planned scopes of work.
Required Skills:
- 3-5+ years of experience in a software engineering discipline
- Experience with full stack application development
- Experience working with both monolithic and microservices architectures
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines
- Experience debugging performance issues and improving application performance
Team Tech Stack:
- Python
- Django REST Framework, Django, fastAPI
- React, React Query
- MySQL / postgreSQL
- DocumentDB
- Clickhouse
- JSON Forms
- Redis
- Memcached
- RabbitMQ / Celery / Apache Pulsar
Preferred Skills:
- Experience working with Service Oriented Architecture (preferably in Python)
- Experience working with RESTful applications/APIs/gRPC
Massachusetts Applicants:
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
Our salary range reflects the cost of labor across various U.S. geographic markets. The range displayed below reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all our US locations. The base salary offered for this position is determined by several factors, including the applicant’s job-related skills, relevant experience, education or training, and work location.
In addition to base salary, our total compensation package may include participation in the company’s annual cash bonus plan, variable compensation (OTE) for sales and customer success roles, equity, sign-on payments, and a comprehensive range of health, welfare, and wellbeing benefits based on eligibility.
Your recruiter can provide more details about the specific salary/OTE range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Get to Know Klaviyo
We’re Klaviyo (pronounced clay-vee-oh). We empower creators to own their destiny by making first-party data accessible and actionable like never before. We see limitless potential for the technology we’re developing to nurture personalized experiences in ecommerce and beyond. To reach our goals, we need our own crew of remarkable creators—ambitious and collaborative teammates who stay focused on our north star: delighting our customers. If you’re ready to do the best work of your career, where you’ll be welcomed as your whole self from day one and supported with generous benefits, we hope you’ll join us.
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