Senior Lead Software Engineer - Developer Infrastructure

Klaviyo

San Francisco, CA, United States
On-site
Technical strategy for backend codebase
Optimize backend and third-party dependencies
Enhance developer productivity and cycle time
Define technical strategy within the scope of the Klaviyo backend and execute to improve the area's architecture, products, infrastructure, and processes

Job Summary

  • Define technical strategy within the scope of the Klaviyo backend and execute to improve the area's architecture, products, infrastructure, and processes.
  • Lead efforts to determine, analyze, and optimize backend and third-party dependencies, ensuring they are secure, performant, and reliable.
  • Drive initiatives to improve platform cycle time metrics across the board, including PR CI Speed, Human Code Review Pickup Time, and Commit Velocity by Repo.

Matching Summary

Define technical strategy within the scope of the Klaviyo backend and execute to improve the area's architecture, products, infrastructure, and processes.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Technical Strategy for backend codebase
  • Optimize backend and third-party dependencies
  • Enhance developer productivity and cycle time
  • Diagnose and resolve complex platform issues
  • Deep expertise in Go, Python, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform

Nice-to-have

  • Experience with Pants, FastAPI, Django, React
  • Background in performance optimization
  • Familiarity with complex data management for testing

Key Requirements

  • 12 years of experience in software development
  • BA or BS Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
  • Experience with distributed systems
  • AI Enthusiast with prior AI experimentation

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