Senior Cloud-Native Security Engineer - Infra & Platform

The Briefed; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Klaviyo is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Infrastructure Security to design and operate cloud-native security platforms at global scale. You will own security services end to end, collaborate with engineers, and improve reliability, performance, and security across distributed systems.

Proficiency in Python or Go, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and modern data stores is essential, with on-call responsibilities and a commitment to secure-by-default practices.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience building and operating cloud-native distributed systems in production.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain cloud-native security services used across Klaviyo.
• Own components and services end to end, from implementation through production operation.
• Improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of infrastructure security systems.
• Collaborate with senior engineers on system design and architecture.
• Identify and fix performance, reliability, and security issues in distributed systems.
• Work extensively with Python, Golang, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and modern data stores.
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and whiteboarding sessions.
• Contribute to operational excellence through monitoring, alerting, and incident response, including an on-call rotation focused on learning, prevention, and reducing toil.
• Build tooling, automation, and documentation that improve developer experience and security posture.
• Partner with product-facing and platform engineers to ship secure solutions.

Skills

Python

Go

Django

FastAPI

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

MySQL

Redis

Memcached

RabbitMQ

Celery

Apache Kafka

Apache Pulsar

Observability

Security

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

MySQL

Redis

Job description

Klaviyo is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Infrastructure Security to design and operate cloud-native security platforms at global scale. You will own security services end to end, collaborate with engineers, and improve reliability, performance, and security across distributed systems.

Proficiency in Python or Go, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and modern data stores is essential, with on-call responsibilities and a commitment to secure-by-default practices.