Senior Software Engineer - Data Platform

<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> to see how we empower creators to own their own destiny.</em></p></div><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 <a href="https://klaviyo.tech/">https://klaviyo.tech</a></p> <p> </p> <p>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.</p> <p> </p> <p>Klaviyo operates a real-time data platform 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.</p> <h2>Responsibilities</h2> <p>Klaviyo operates a real-time data analytics platform written primarily in Python that is built for massive scale and hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The Data Platform team builds tooling and establishes best practices and technology choices that help enable the Data Platform area to power core Klaviyo functionality and generate data-driven insights. As an engineer on this team, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining our mission critical data and analytics infrastructure. You will work with a cross functional team to write technical design documents, create system infrastructure, write high quality code, and operate large scale systems in production. You will also review other engineer’s designs and code, and provide technical mentorship to other engineers on the team and in the broader engineering organization.</p> <h2>Team Tech Stack</h2> <ul> <li>AWS</li> <li>Terraform</li> <li>Python</li> <li>Kubernetes</li> <li>Clickhouse</li> <li>DynamoDB</li> <li>MySQL</li> <li>Kafka</li> <li>Spark</li> <li>Flink</li> <li>Iceberg</li> <li>Airflow</li> <li>DataHub</li> </ul> <h2>Required Skills</h2> <ul> <li>BA or BS Degree in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent experience</li> <li>7+ years of experience in a software engineering discipline</li> <li>Highly skilled in using at least one modern programming language</li> <li>Experience provisioning infrastructure using Terraform or a similar infrastructure as code tool</li> <li>Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems in a cloud computing environment</li> <li>Experience using Linux operating systems</li> <li>Experience with OLTP and OLAP databases</li> <li>Experience with high volume data processing a