Klaviyo
Senior Software Engineer - Identity and Access Management
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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About the role
- Identity and Access Management (IAM) controls how people, services, integrations, and AI agents access Klaviyo.
- This is a chance to solve hard identity problems that affect nearly every part of our product.
- Improve the architecture of your area as scale, security, and product needs change.
Responsibilities
- Visit klaviyo.com/careers to see how we empower creators to own their own destiny.
- Lead business-critical projects from design through launch and long-term operation.
- Build secure, reliable services for authentication, authorization, delegation, auditing, and revocation.
- Break ambiguous problems into clear work that several engineers can deliver together.
- Own the customer impact, reliability, and technical quality of your work in production.
- Define and maintain SLOs for the systems that you own.
Requirements
- You have 7+ years of experience building and operating production software.
- You have experience with authentication, authorization, identity, or related security systems.
- You have built networking systems, API gateways, APIs, or SDKs.
- You have led complex projects that spanned multiple engineers and several months.
Nice to have
- Experience with auth or policy systems.
- Experience with AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, React, or Django.
- Experience with enterprise security, auditability, data residency, or compliance needs.
- We care most about strong judgment, ownership, and care for the customer experience.
- Massachusetts Applicants:
- It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment.
- An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
- Travel is coordinated in advance.
Compensation
- Our salary range reflects the cost of labor across various U.S. geographic markets.
Company info
- Partner with Security, Product, Platform, and product engineering teams.
- Create reusable patterns that make IAM easier and safer for other teams to adopt.
- Mentor engineers and help project contributors succeed.
- Apply new engineering and AI tools responsibly, then share what you learn with the team.
- Take on important unowned work that helps the team move faster.
- You have hands-on experience developing production services in Go or Python.
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
This listing is sourced directly from Klaviyo's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.