Principal Software Engineer, Enterprise Scalability

What this role involves

Klaviyo seeks a Principal Software Engineer to lead enterprise scalability initiatives. The role involves defining scalability fitness functions, designing sharding and caching strategies, and driving platform-wide architectural changes. The ideal candidate has 12+ years scaling multi-tenant SaaS and integrates AI into resilience work.

Skills this posting asks for

• performance engineering
• capacity planning
• sharding
• partitioning
• caching
• back-pressure
• multi-region readiness
• high-volume migrations
• ai tools
• anomaly detection
• synthetic load
• runbook copilots
• benchmarking
• profiling
• fitness functions
• scorecard
• software engineering
• saas
• multi-tenant
• data
• observability

Requirements

• 12 years of experience
• Level: principal

From the employer’s posting

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 bey…