Software Engineer II, Reliability

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As a Software Engineer II Reliability you will help ensure Klaviyos critical platforms are reliable scalable and sustainable while enabling rapid product development.

We treat reliability as a core product feature and use software engineering to solve complex systems and operational challenges. Our work spans infrastructure security and software engineering and focuses on building and operating systems that are reliable secure and performant at scale.

The SRE teams charter is to build and operate foundational services and infrastructure reduce operational toil through automation and continuously improve systems based on real production learnings. Your work will directly impact how Klaviyo engineers build software and how customers experience our platform every day.

As a Software Engineer II Reliability you will contribute to the reliability and operational excellence of Klaviyos platforms by working on well-scoped projects and owning services with support from senior engineers. You will:

• Build operate and improve production systems with a focus on reliability scalability and performance
• Apply software engineering principles to automate operational tasks and reduce manual toil
• Contribute to the design and implementation of systems using established SRE best practices
• Help define and measure SLIs and SLOs for services you support
• Improve observability through metrics dashboards logging and tracing
• Participate in on-call rotations and respond to production incidents with guidance and support
• Assist with incident investigation and contribute to post-incident reviews and follow-up actions
• Perform basic analysis around system behavior capacity usage and scaling characteristics
• Identify reliability issues or operational pain points and work with teammates to address them
• Collaborate with product platform and security engineers to ship reliable systems
• Write and maintain clear operational runbooks and system documentation

You are an early-to-mid career SRE who is comfortable operating production systems and eager to deepen your expertise in reliability :

• Have experience operating cloud-native production systems and services
• Write production-quality code (e.g. Python Go or similar) to automate operations and improve reliability
• Understand common failure modes in distributed systems such as dependency failures resource exhaustion and partial outages
• Have experience working with containerized workloads and platforms (e.g. Kubernetes) in production environments
• Are comfortable participating in on-call rotations and diagnosing straightforward production issues
• Have experience using observability tools and responding to alerts
• Are familiar with SRE concepts such as SLIs SLOs and error budgets and are learning how to apply them in practice
• Have hands-on experience with infrastructure as code or declarative configuration (e.g. Terraform Kubernetes manifests)
• Can follow incident response processes and contribute meaningfully during outages
• Are comfortable receiving feedback learning from incidents and improving your systems over time
• Youve already experimented with AI in work or personal projects and youre excited to dive in and learn fast. Youre hungry to responsibly explore new AI tools and workflows finding ways to make your work smarter and more efficient.

• Experience supporting security-sensitive systems or internal platforms
• Familiarity with AWS or other cloud providers
• Exposure to messaging or asynchronous systems (e.g. Kafka RabbitMQ Celery)
• Interest in performance testing capacity planning or resilience work
• Practical experience with algorithms and data structures

Klaviyos platform is primarily built with Python and React and runs on AWS. Engineers join us from a wide range of technical backgrounds and are supported in learning our stack.

Core technologies include:

• Python / Django / FastAPI
• MySQL / Redis / Memcached
• RabbitMQ / Celery / Apache Kafka / Apache Pulsar
• AWS / Terraform / Kubernetes

This role is based in Dublin Ireland and follows a hybrid working model. Klaviyo supports work authorization and relocation for this position.

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