Sr. Software Engineer, Messaging Infrastructure

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><p><em>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. If you’re a close but not exact match with the description, we hope you’ll still consider applying. Want to learn more about life at Klaviyo? Visit <a class="_ymio1r31 _ypr0glyw _zcxs1o36 _mizu194a _1ah3dkaa _ra3xnqa1 _128mdkaa _1cvmnqa1 _4davt94y _4bfu18uv _1hms8stv _ajmmnqa1 _vchhusvi _kqswh2mm _ect4ttxp _syaz13af _1a3b18uv _4fpr8stv _5goinqa1 _f8pj13af _9oik18uv _1bnxglyw _jf4cnqa1 _30l313af _1nrm18uv _c2waglyw _1iohnqa1 _9h8h12zz _10531ra0 _1ien1ra0 _n0fx1ra0 _1vhv17z1" href="http://klaviyo.com/careers" data-renderer-mark="true">klaviyo.com/careers</a>&nbsp;to see how we empower creators to own their own destiny.</em></p></div><p><strong>About Klaviyo</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <p><strong>About the Team</strong></p> <p>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.<strong><br></strong><strong><br></strong><strong>How You Will Make a Difference&nbsp;</strong></p> <ul> <li>In this role, you will own and build features/services that hundreds of thousands of Klaviyo customers rely on daily to drive their business forward.</li> <li>Work on crafting our highly-scalable, highly-available campaign pipeline that processes and delivers hundreds of millions of messages daily growing to billions scale.</li> <li>Collaborate radically with teams and stakeholders across Klaviyo on designs, implementations, and engineering practices.</li> <li>Learn new technologies, bring them to the team and apply them to evolve our systems to the next level.</li> <li>Help us improve our experimentation and development processes, and mentor other engineers on the team.</li> <li>Participate in the technical interview process to help maintain a high bar for our growing teams</li> <li>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.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Who You Are&nbsp;</strong></p> <ul> <li>5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production distributed systems.</li> <li class="li1">Deep fluency in at least one backend language (Python, Go, Java, Scala, or similar) and comfort navigating large, complex codebases.</li> <li class="li1">Experience on large-scale system architecture, technologies and patterns. Have a good understanding of their pros/cons and use scenarios, able to apply them to system design by making appropriate tradeoffs to meet the business needs best.</li> <li class="li1">Love digging into performance and scalability issues to drive breakthrough solutions-- whether it's a performance degradation or too many clicks in a workflow, a database query timing out, or a queue that just won’t drain. You recognize all problems can be solved.</li> <li class="li1">Passionate about growing and improving a product daily using a data driven mindset, familiar with system monitoring and alerting techniques.</li> <li class="li1">Proven experience with being a coach and a mentor for team members and helping them grow.</li> <li class="li1">Solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals: consistency models, CAP, tradeoffs, idempotency, retries and backoff, rate limiting, and graceful degradation.</li> <li class="li1">Ability to operate effectively in a high-ownership culture: you drive your work forward,unblock yourself, and hold yourself accountable to outcomes, not just effort.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Technologies we use (not exhaustive):</strong></p> <p><em>Languages &amp; Frameworks:</em> Python, Django, React</p> <p><em>Data &amp; Infrastructure:</em> MySQL, Redis, Memcached, Apache Zookeeper, Apache Pulsar</p> <p><em>Cloud &amp; DevOps:</em> AWS (EC2, RDS, Aurora), Terraform, Jenkins</p> <p><strong>Location &amp; Work Model:</strong></p> <p>This role is based in Dublin, Ireland and follows a hybrid working model. Klaviyo supports work authorization and relocation for this position.</p> <p>At Klaviyo, we enjoy tackling meaningful engineering challenges and value people who take ownership, learn continuously, and collaborate openly. We are committed to building inclusive teams and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds.</p> <p>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</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p>Our salary range reflects the cost of labour in the country where the job post is advertised. 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.</p> <p>In addition to base salary, our total compensation package may include participation in the company’s annual cash bonus plan,