Engineering Manager, Events

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 klaviyo.com/careers to see how we empower creators to own their own destiny.

Background

Klaviyo operates a real-time data analytics platform coded primarily in Python that is built for massive scale and hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Engineers come to Klaviyo with experience in a variety of languages and from a number of disciplines.

Klaviyo’s Core Data Platform consists of 3 key entities: Profiles (our customer’s customer), Objects (ex: Products & Custom), and Events (the actions taken). Events are the backbone of Klaviyo. Most of our customers view Klaviyo through the lens of events. Events are key to our real time automations, insights and emerging AI feature set.

At Klaviyo, we love tackling tough engineering problems and look for employees 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 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.

How you’ll make an impact:

This team is the backbone of klaviyo’s data platform enabling all our segmentation, flows, and analytics. As an Engineering Manager, you’ll be contributing to the vision, mission, and strategy of Klaviyo’s evolution. You’ll lead and mentor a team of talented and experienced software engineers who are eager to grow fast and make an impact on the company.

What You Will Do

• Lead, manage, and mentor a team of software engineers that designs and develops the event platform
• Own features that thousands of our customers and internal teams rely on daily to drive their business forward
• Coordinate a team of 6-10 engineers to deliver projects that enhance Klaviyo’s event platform capabilities
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to define project scope, requirements, and timelines, and ensure timely and successful project delivery
• Think in systems, help design and improve architectural patterns to ensure they are performant and scalable
• Actively participate in code reviews and contribute to the development of technical solutions to complex problems
• Foster a culture of innovation, continuous learning, and collaboration within the Engineering and Product organizations
• Participate in the technical interview process to help maintain a high bar for our growing teams

What We’re looking for:

• 10+ years of experience in software development with 3+ years of experience in Engineering Management
• You are passionate about and have proven experience being a coach and a mentor for team members and helping them grow
• You’re a hands-on manager, able to contribute to design documents, write code, and perform code reviews when necessary
• Experience working with internal stakeholders on feature, technical, and architectural specifications
• Proficiency in managing all aspects of PDLC/SDLC and successfully driving complex projects to completion
• Experience working with data storage technologies and patterns, including distributed storage, data modeling, and relational databases
• You have architected, built and delivered at least one complex data processing system
• Experience with large scale data pipelines and real time data ingestion
• You know how to apply off-the-shelf technologies to solve technical problems, and know when it’s time to build your own
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Nice to have:

• Experience working with both monolithic and microservices architectures
• Experience debugging performance issues and improving system performance
• Experience working with cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure)

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Our salary range reflects the cost of labor across various U.S. geographic markets. The range displayed below reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all our US locations. 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.

In addition to base salary, our total compensation package may include participation in the company’s annual cash bonus plan, variable compensation (OTE) for sales and customer success roles, equity, sign-on payments, and a comprehensive range of health, welfare, and wellbeing benefits based on eligibility.

Your recruiter can provide more details about the specific salary/OTE range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

This role may require up to 10% travel for purposes such as new hire onboarding, client or partner work if applicable, team meetings, and industry events. Travel is coordinated in advance.

Get to Know Klaviyo

We’re Klaviyo (pronounced clay-vee-oh). We empower creators to own their destiny by making first-party data accessible and actionable like never before. We see limitless potential for the technology we’re developing to nurture personalized experiences in ecommerce and beyond. To reach our goals, we need our own crew of remarkable creators—ambitious and collaborative teammates who stay focused on our north star: delighting our customers. If you’re ready to do the best work of your career, where you’ll be welcomed as your whole self from day one and supported with generous benefits, we hope you’ll join us.

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