Lead Software Engineer: CI/CD Platform

Klaviyo Inc.; Boston, Northern (MA, KY); Hybrid; USD 176,000 - 264,000; Full time

Job summary

Klaviyo seeks a technical leader to own the CI/CD platform, guiding architectural decisions and enabling hundreds of engineers to ship reliably. You will drive end-to-end deployment pipelines, define engineering standards, and scale tooling for performance and maintainability.

You will lead cross-functional teams, apply root-cause analysis to prevent incidents, and explore AI-enabled approaches to improve testing and release velocity across the org.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with leadership of complex projects.

Responsibilities

• Define Architectural Vision for CI/CD pipelines across backend and frontend stacks.
• Own end-to-end delivery pipelines with security, efficiency, and compliance.
• Set engineering standards for repositories, PRs, cycle time and reliability.
• Design scalable tooling to raise quality and velocity across teams and repos.
• Lead AI-driven strategies to accelerate development and testing.

Skills

Leadership

CI/CD

Root-Cause Analysis

Full-Stack Architecture

AI Vision

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

Buildkite

MySQL

Redis

Job description

Klaviyo seeks a technical leader to own the CI/CD platform, guiding architectural decisions and enabling hundreds of engineers to ship reliably. You will drive end-to-end deployment pipelines, define engineering standards, and scale tooling for performance and maintainability.

You will lead cross-functional teams, apply root-cause analysis to prevent incidents, and explore AI-enabled approaches to improve testing and release velocity across the org.