Real-Time Distributed Systems Engineer

Klaviyo; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 76,000 - 114,000; Full time

Job summary

Klaviyo in Dublin, Ireland, is looking for an experienced backend engineer to join the Messaging Infra team. You will design and operate real-time messaging systems handling hundreds of millions of messages daily and ensure low latency, high throughput and reliability.

You will own services across queues, streams and messaging systems, mentor teammates, and contribute to interview processes while collaborating with teams to evolve our platform.

Qualifications

• At least 4+ years in software engineering and delivered a complex production system at scale.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale highly-available, low-latency, high-throughput, event-driven services that process live messaging events across channels.

Skills

Backend development

Python

Go

Java

Scala

Event-driven architecture

Streaming / messaging

Kafka / Pulsar / RabbitMQ

Performance optimization

Code reviews / mentoring

Tools

Django

React

MySQL

Redis

Apache Zookeeper

Apache Pulsar

AWS

Terraform

Jenkins

Job description

Klaviyo in Dublin, Ireland, is looking for an experienced backend engineer to join the Messaging Infra team. You will design and operate real-time messaging systems handling hundreds of millions of messages daily and ensure low latency, high throughput and reliability.

You will own services across queues, streams and messaging systems, mentor teammates, and contribute to interview processes while collaborating with teams to evolve our platform.