Senior Data Platform Engineer (AI-Driven, Scalable)

Klaviyo; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 244,000 - 366,000; Full time

Job summary

Klaviyo is seeking a seasoned data platform leader to own and evolve our data platform, enabling autonomous, AI-driven experiences. You’ll design scalable systems, define SLOs, ensure governance, and guide teams through architecture, code, and influence.

The role is an individual contributor with no direct reports, focusing on architectural leadership, reliability, and cross‑team collaboration to accelerate data-driven product capabilities.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building and operating distributed data systems.
• AI tools & automation: applying ML/GenAI to data platforms with human-in-the-loop review.
• Ability to land data contracts, connectors, and templates; mentor via design docs and pairing.
• AI fluency: Klaviyo default; experiment and share AI wins responsibly.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement core data platform capabilities (e.g., event ingestion/CDC, stream processing, batch orchestration, data lake/warehouse patterns, catalog/lineage, governance, access, and compliance).
• Define and uphold SLOs for data freshness, availability, and correctness; author/run readiness reviews, incident response, and post‑incident learning for your domain.
• Author ADRs/RFCs, land data contracts and schema governance, and standardize connectors and templates that accelerate developer velocity.
• Profile, tune, and right‑size systems for performance and cost; partner with FinOps on unit‑economics guardrails.
• Pair with product teams and analytics/ML to expose the right abstractions and unblock customer value quickly.
• Contribute high‑quality code and reviews; mentor Staff/ Sr. engineers across pillars through example and enablement (not line management).
• Use AI to streamline data workflows, from authoring and testing pipelines to catalog/search and DQ, so analysts, ML, and product teams move faster with confidence.

Skills

Distributed data systems design

SLO definition & reliability

Architectural leadership (IC)

AI/GenAI for data platforms

Mentoring via design docs & pairing

Tools

Kafka

Pub/Sub

Flink

Spark

Beam

Airflow

Dagster

Iceberg

Delta

Hudi

Snowflake

BigQuery

Object storage

Job description

Klaviyo is seeking a seasoned data platform leader to own and evolve our data platform, enabling autonomous, AI-driven experiences. You’ll design scalable systems, define SLOs, ensure governance, and guide teams through architecture, code, and influence.

The role is an individual contributor with no direct reports, focusing on architectural leadership, reliability, and cross‑team collaboration to accelerate data-driven product capabilities.