Senior Data Engineer - Data Warehousing

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.

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We love tackling tough engineering problems and look for Engineers who are passionate about building, owning, and scaling features 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 written in Python and 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.

About the Team :

The Data Warehousing Team is responsible for the majority of real-time analytical queries at Klaviyo. We process thousands of queries per second to power Klaviyos analytical reporting capabilities.

How you'll make a difference :

As a senior 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 engineers designs and code to provide technical feedback and improvements as you grow your own skill set.

Team Tech Stack

• Python
• ClickHouse
• Kafka
• ZooKeeper
• Django
• Redis

Must Have :

• Highly skilled in using at least one modern programming language
• 5+ years of experience in a software engineering discipline
• Significant experience with backend, service oriented application development
• Experience with OLAP databases
• schema design
• normalization / denormalization trade-offs
• performance
• operations
• Able to communicate well
• 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
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Nice to have :

• Experience with distributed systems
• Experience performance tuning and scaling systems
• Experience with high volume data processing and storage systems
• Experience using Linux operating systems

The pay range for this role is listed below. Sales roles are also eligible for variable compensation and hourly non-exempt roles are eligible for overtime in accordance with applicable law.

This role is eligible for benefits, including : medical, dental and vision coverage, health savings accounts, flexible spending accounts, 401(k), flexible paid time off and company-paid holidays and a culture of learning that includes a learning allowance and access to a professional coaching service for all employees.

Base Pay Range For US Locations :

$156,800 $235,200 USD

Get to Know Klaviyo

Were 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 were developing to nurture personalized experiences in ecommerce and beyond.

To reach our goals, we need our own crew of remarkable creatorsambitious and collaborative teammates who stay focused on our north star : delighting our customers.

If youre ready to do the best work of your career, where youll be welcomed as your whole self from day one and supported with generous benefits, we hope youll join us.

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