Senior Software Engineer - Data Automation
Boston · USD 148,000-222,000 · 7+ years experience · Posted Oct 19, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 7+ years experience
- Location
- Boston
- Salary
- USD 148,000-222,000 · Base salary
About the role
- The Data Automation team builds tooling that helps our Data Platform engineers provision and use infrastructure to power core Klaviyo functionality and generate data-driven insights.
- As an engineer on this team, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining our mission critical analytics infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain mission critical analytics infrastructure
- Work with a cross functional team to write technical design documents
- Create system infrastructure
- Write high quality code
- Operate large scale systems in production
- Review other engineer's designs and code
- Provide technical mentorship to other engineers on the team and in the broader engineering organization
Requirements
- BA or BS Degree in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent experience
- 7+ years of experience in a software engineering discipline
- Highly skilled in using at least one modern programming language
- Experience provisioning infrastructure using Terraform or a similar infrastructure as code tool
- Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems in a cloud computing environment
- Experience using Linux operating systems
- Experience with OLTP and OLAP databases
- Experience with high volume data processing and storage systems
- Able to communicate well, both verbally and in writing
- Able to work with others on a team
Benefits
- Annual cash bonus plan participation
- Equity
- Sign-on payments
- Comprehensive range of health, welfare, and wellbeing benefits
Workplace
- 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.
Skills
- AWS
- Terraform
- Python
- Kubernetes
- Clickhouse
- DynamoDB
- MySQL
- Kafka
- Spark
- Flink
- Iceberg
- Airflow
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- Linux