Reliability Engineer II (SRE) — Cloud-Native, Dublin

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

Job summary

Klaviyo in Dublin is seeking a Software Engineer II, Reliability to ensure critical platforms are reliable, scalable, and sustainable while enabling rapid product development. The role emphasizes treating reliability as a core product feature and reducing toil through automation.

You will collaborate with product, platform, and security engineers, implement SLIs/SLOs, and improve observability. The role requires cloud-native operations, code in Python/Go, and experience with Kubernetes.

Qualifications

• Experience operating cloud-native production systems.
• Write production-quality code to automate operations and improve reliability.
• Understand failure modes in distributed systems and handling outages.
• Familiarity with containerized workloads and platforms (Kubernetes).

Responsibilities

• Build, operate, and improve production systems with a focus on reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Automate operational tasks to reduce toil.
• Contribute to design and implementation of systems using SRE best practices.
• Define and measure SLIs and SLOs for services you support.
• Improve observability through metrics, dashboards, logging, and tracing.
• Participate in on-call rotations and respond to production incidents with guidance.
• Assist with incident investigation and post-incident reviews.
• Perform basic analysis around system behavior, capacity usage, and scaling.

Skills

Cloud-native production systems

Production code (Python/Go)

Kubernetes

Observability & metrics

On-call incident response

AI tooling familiarity

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Celery

Python

Job description

Klaviyo in Dublin is seeking a Software Engineer II, Reliability to ensure critical platforms are reliable, scalable, and sustainable while enabling rapid product development. The role emphasizes treating reliability as a core product feature and reducing toil through automation.

You will collaborate with product, platform, and security engineers, implement SLIs/SLOs, and improve observability. The role requires cloud-native operations, code in Python/Go, and experience with Kubernetes.