Senior Platform Engineer — Async Processing & Scale

Triwill Group; Boston, Northern (MA, KY); Hybrid; USD 148,000 - 222,000; Full time

Job summary

Klaviyo in Boston, Massachusetts, is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer for its Asynchronous Processing team. You will architect, build, and operate the large-scale, event-driven backbone that powers our products, crafting queueing primitives on top of Python, Go, Apache Pulsar, Kafka, and SQS running in AWS and Kubernetes.

You will own reliability, scalability, and observability, mentor engineers, participate in on-call, and collaborate with teams to deliver low-latency, resilient services that

Qualifications

• BA or BS in Computer Science or related field.
• 6+ years of hands-on software development experience at scale.
• Experience building and operating high-availability SaaS platforms.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and operate large-scale, event-driven backbones.
• Design multi-tenant queueing and processing platforms.
• Mentor engineers and participate in on-call duties.
• Partner with teams to drive reliability and performance.

Skills

Distributed systems

SaaS

AWS

Kubernetes

Python

Go

On-call experience

AI experimentation

Education

BA or BS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Apache Pulsar

Kafka

SQS

Terraform

Kubernetes

Python

GoLang

Job description

Klaviyo in Boston, Massachusetts, is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer for its Asynchronous Processing team. You will architect, build, and operate the large-scale, event-driven backbone that powers our products, crafting queueing primitives on top of Python, Go, Apache Pulsar, Kafka, and SQS running in AWS and Kubernetes.

You will own reliability, scalability, and observability, mentor engineers, participate in on-call, and collaborate with teams to deliver low-latency, resilient services that