Senior Lead Data Platform Architect – Lakehouse & AI/ML

The Briefed; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 216,000 - 324,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Healthcare

401(k)

Professional development

Job summary

Klaviyo is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer in the Data Platform group (Data Lake Domain) to shape strategy for lakehouse storage, compute, onboarding, and automation. This principal role combines hands-on systems work with cross-team leadership to deliver scalable data platforms across AWS.

You will lead multi-quarter programs, mentor engineers, and ensure reliability, cost-awareness, and data freshness at scale in a distributed environment.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of professional software engineering in distributed systems and data platforms.
• Led large, multi-quarter programs across teams and boundaries.
• Hands-on experience with Iceberg, Spark, Airflow, and AWS infrastructure.
• Deep knowledge of data quality, schema evolution, lineage, and access controls.

Responsibilities

• Provide multi-team architectural leadership across Data Lake, Automation, and Warehouse teams.
• Architect lakehouse systems and make high-judgment decisions across tech stacks.
• Improve developer experience with reusable frameworks and self-serve data tooling.
• Lead cross-team programs from discovery to rollout and align product/AI teams.
• Own platform reliability, latency, data freshness, auditing, and cost optimization.
• Mentor senior engineers and support hiring in the organization.

Skills

Distributed systems

Data platform

Architectural leadership

Apache Iceberg

Spark/EMR

Airflow

AWS cloud

Data governance

Mentorship

Tools

Apache Iceberg

AWS S3

Apache Spark

AWS EMR

Apache Airflow

Python

Job description

Klaviyo is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer in the Data Platform group (Data Lake Domain) to shape strategy for lakehouse storage, compute, onboarding, and automation. This principal role combines hands-on systems work with cross-team leadership to deliver scalable data platforms across AWS.

You will lead multi-quarter programs, mentor engineers, and ensure reliability, cost-awareness, and data freshness at scale in a distributed environment.