Engineering Manager - Data Automation

Team Overview

Klaviyo operates a real-time data analytics platform written primarily in Python that is built for massive scale and hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The Data Automation team builds tooling and establishes best practices and technology choices that help enable the Data Platform area to power core Klaviyo functionality and generate data-driven insights.

How You'll Make a Difference

• You will be responsible for building and managing a team of 7+ engineers to fulfill your data automation vision and roadmap.
• Responsible for coaching engineers, managing/reviewing technical documentation and articulating a phased approach to achieving the team's overall technical vision.
• Wholly owning the frameworks that enable us to provision, update, test, monitor, and scale infrastructure to power features that 183,000+ customers rely on daily to reach 4B+ consumers to drive their business forward.
• Optimizing infrastructure with the teams that own Klaviyo’s analytics system that provides insight on hundreds of terabytes of data.
• Transform workflows by putting AI at the center, building smarter systems and ways of working from the ground up.

Required Skills

• BA or BS Degree in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of software engineering experience in a DevOps environment with specific experience in data processing systems
• 3+ years of people management experience
• Hands-on experience designing, building, and operating reliable, fault-tolerant, and high performance distributed systems
• Ability to handle yourself in outage situations and to drive failures to root cause analysis and prevention of future issues
• Experience writing code using best practices in a language such as Python, Ruby, Go, etc.
• You’ve already experimented with AI in work or personal projects, and you’re excited to dive in and learn fast
• Proven ability to come up to speed quickly

Company Information

• Hybrid office work 3x/week out of our Boston office
• We use Covey as part of our hiring and / or promotional process
• Our salary range reflects the cost of labor across various U.S. geographic markets
• This role may require up to 10% travel for purposes such as new hire onboarding, client or partner work if applicable, team meetings, and industry events