Sr. Lead Software Engineer - Messaging Infrastructure

At Klaviyo, we value the unique backgrounds, experiences and perspectives each Klaviyo (we call ourselves Klaviyos) brings to our workplace each and every day. We believe everyone deserves a fair shot at success and appreciate the experiences each person brings beyond the traditional job requirements. If you’re a close but not exact match with the description, we hope you’ll still consider applying. Want to learn more about life at Klaviyo? Visit klaviyo.com/careers to see how we empower creators to own their own destiny. About Klaviyo Klaviyo is a leading marketing automation platform that helps businesses grow by delivering personalized experiences. Our mission is to empower creators to own their destiny. We believe in providing an exceptional developer experience that enables our engineering teams to build and ship high-quality software efficiently and with confidence. About the Team The Messaging Infra organization at Klaviyo is focused on high-growth customer engagement through various messaging channels (email, SMS/MMS/RCS, mobile push, WhatsApp, and more). We work with multiple stakeholders to provide best-in-class service and reliability to connect a wide range of businesses, from entrepreneurs to enterprises, with their end users. The messaging platform is a mission-critical system, responsible for delivering billions of messages, and must be architected for massive scale and reliability. As a Senior Lead Software Engineer within the Messaging Infra organization, you will serve as the primary technical architect for our high-volume message delivery systems while driving the overarching technical vision for channel expansion. You will partner with leaders across all channels to ensure a scalable, reliable, and performant platform strategy, acting as a key technical liaison to the broader Mobile Channels and Messaging Infrastructure pillar. Your leadership will ensure that our core systems are not just maintained, but architected to accelerate innovation and business impact while raising the bar on scalability and reliability. What You'll Do As a Senior Lead Software Engineer, you will have an overarching responsibility for the architecture, health, and scaling of the Messaging Infra platform with a focus on high-volume message delivery. Your role will involve: Technical Strategy: Define the technical strategy and architectural vision for the Messaging Infra platform, ensuring all system improvements align with long-term business goals for massive scalability, high reliability, and low latency message delivery. System Architecture and Improvement : Serve as the primary architect to build and improve high-volume message delivery systems across multiple channels, focusing on throughput, performance, and reliability. Cohesive Technical Vision : Drive technical leadership to guide architectural decisions across multiple teams, striving towards a cohesive technical vision across multiple roadmap items and providing solutions for complex problems around scalability and performance. Platform Rollouts and Product Execution : Oversee and execute the planning and seamless rollout of major software releases and updates for the platform, managing the entire lifecycle from design to deployment in production environments including significant individual contributions. Problem Solving and Reliability : Act as a go-to expert for diagnosing and resolving complex performance, scalability, and reliability issues across the messaging platform. Implement proactive monitoring and telemetry to identify and address problems before they become critical incidents. Mentorship: Mentor other engineers regularly, primarily experienced lead and senior engineers, to develop new technical leadership for the company. Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner with product managers, deliverability and compliance specialists, and other stakeholders to gather requirements, resolve conflicts, and ensure alignment across all teams and project ... (truncated, view full listing at source)