Lead Ai Software Engineer

Klaviyo

Boston, MA, United States
$176,000—$264,000 usd py
On-site
Design and development of backend and ml systems
Robust, reliable, and efficient data processing
Predictive systems development
Lead the design and development of backend and ML systems that scale to serve 182K+ customers

Job Summary

  • Lead the design and development of backend and ML systems that scale to serve 182K+ customers.
  • Build robust, reliable, and efficient data processing and model-serving pipelines that power production ML models.
  • Mentor engineers and help evolve Klaviyo’s ML engineering best practices, tooling, and architecture.

Matching Summary

Lead the design and development of backend and ML systems that scale to serve 182K+ customers.

Salary

$176,000—$264,000 USD

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • design and development of backend and ML systems
  • robust, reliable, and efficient data processing
  • predictive systems development
  • architect systems and services for AI agents
  • Python and modern frameworks
  • big data and streaming technologies
  • distributed systems and high-scale architectures

Nice-to-have

  • reinforcement learning or agentic AI systems
  • experimentation and data-driven innovation

Key Requirements

  • 7–10 years of experience in machine learning engineering or applied software engineering
  • Deep understanding of supervised learning methods
  • Proven track record of building and scaling production-grade ML systems
  • Proficient in Python
  • Skilled with big data and streaming technologies
  • Hands-on with asynchronous processing and distributed task queues
  • Strong understanding of databases and ORMs
  • Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures

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