Klaviyo
Senior Software Engineer - Data Platform
Boston, MA · Senior
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odds of building a lasting career here
Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$14,198 more — $162,198 — moves this role to Level III and 3 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $162,198 would place this position at wage Level III. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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Green-card follow-through: 79%
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About the role
- If you're a close but not exact match with the description, we hope you'll still consider applying.
- Klaviyo is growing fast and we have openings for all skill levels across all of our teams.
Responsibilities
- The Data Platform 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.
- You will work with a cross functional team to write technical design documents, create system infrastructure, write high quality code, and operate large scale systems in production.
- You will also review other engineer's designs and code, and provide technical mentorship to other engineers on the team and in the broader engineering organization.
- Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems in a cloud computing environment
Requirements
- BA or BS Degree in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent experience
- 7+ years of experience in a software engineering discipline
- Experience provisioning infrastructure using Terraform or a similar infrastructure as code tool
- Experience using Linux operating systems
- Experience with OLTP and OLAP databases
- Experience with high volume data processing and storage systems
Skills
- Want to learn more about life at Klaviyo?
- Learn more about our engineering culture at https://klaviyo.tech
- Klaviyo operates a real-time data platform built for massive scale on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- Engineers come to Klaviyo with experience in a variety of languages and from a number of disciplines.
Compensation
- Our salary range reflects the cost of labor across various U.S. geographic markets.
Company info
- At Klaviyo, we value the unique backgrounds, experiences and perspectives each Klaviyo (we call ourselves Klaviyos) brings to our workplace each and every day.
- As an engineer on this team, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining our mission critical data and analytics infrastructure.
Visa & Work Authorization
- We do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, citizenship, national origin, color, religion or religious creed, age, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability
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