Software Engineer II - Catalogs

Klaviyo is growing fast and we have openings for all skill levels across all of our teams. Learn more about our engineering culture at

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 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.This role is based in Boston and requires working onsite three days per week

Team Overview

The Catalogs Team is responsible for processing and storing catalog related data at Klaviyo. We process and store all of our customer’s data about the goods that they sell and the entities that they want to market to customers and pass them down to downstream systems for reporting and scalable querying capabilities. We process billions of requests every day.

Responsibilities

As an engineer on this team, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining systems to support core product areas in Klaviyo. You will work with a cross functional team to help refine feature specifications, 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.

Team Tech Stack

• Python


• Django


• Postgres


• Pulsar


• Kafka


• Redis


• EMR


• Iceberg


• AWS

Required Skills

• Must have 5+ years of experience in a software engineering discipline


• Highly skilled in using at least one modern programming language


• Experience designing, building, and operating large scale distributed systems in a cloud computing environment


• Experience with OLTP and OLAP databases




• Tuning queries and making them more performant


• Debugging and resolving issues with database performance in production environments


• Experience with high volume data processing and storage systems enabling high throughput and fast query lookups


• Experience using Linux operating systems


• Able to communicate well, both verbally and in writing


• Able to work with others on a team


• Able to learn continuously and adapt to a high growth environment


• Able to stick with and solve difficult problems


• BA or BS Degree in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent experience

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