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Data is at the heart of every decision made at Klaviyo, and were looking for a Principal Data Engineer to join our Business Intelligence (BI) team. BI at Klaviyo collaborates across all departments to provide a platform that powers all internal data, analytic, and reporting needs. Our mission is to champion data-driven value creation, and you will own creating and maintaining the internal data infrastructure that powers Klaviyos business. This role in particular will oversee the infrastructure, pipelines, and security/compliance aspects of our internal analytics platform while driving architectural innovation and mentoring the team.
Technologies We Use (Not Exhaustive):
- Amazon Web Services (EC2, EMR, S3, Lambda, Athena, DynamoDB, CodeBuild, etc.)
- Infrastructure such as Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker
- Compute engines like Snowflake, Spark, Trino, and Clickhouse built on top of cloud storage (Iceberg/Parquet)
- Orchestration tools (Airflow, dbt, etc.)
- Streaming platforms (Kafka) and ETLs Fivetran, and Airbyte
How You Will Make a Difference:
- Lead the design, implementation, and testing of data systems used by thousands of people, from architecture to production.
- Contribute to the development of long-term data strategies and roadmaps, influencing the technical direction of data engineering practices within the organization.
- Develop and maintain the source of truth data environment used by everyone at Klaviyo to measure the health of the business.
- Architect and productionize batch and real-time data systems to support various product and business needs.
- Build ETLs that can ingest multiple terabytes of data per day and support multi-petabyte data models.
- Ensure the quality, performance, and stability of data systems through robust quality systems and monitoring practices.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Platform Engineering, Security, Product, Finance, Go-To-Market, Customer Success, Support, Sales, and Marketing.
- Build data governance solutions into every part of the platform, ensuring compliance and security standards.
- Mentor and coach team members, providing guidance and support to enhance their skills and performance.
Who You Are:
You are a creator at heart who understands the importance of a well-designed data environment. You have a deep understanding of business problems within the company and how to create, transform, and store the data needed to solve these problems. You are a systematic thinker and enjoy finding creative technical solutions to hard problems by collaborating closely with your team. You are curious, constantly seeking the best solutions, and passionate about contributing to the success of a data-driven organization.
Required Skills and Experience:
- Proven track record of leading highly technical projects and delivering impactful results.
- Strong understanding of cloud technologies (AWS preferred).
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tooling such as Terraform.
- 7+ years of data development experience in SQL and 3+ years in object-oriented. programming languages (e.g., Python).
- Expertise in database design, 3NF, dimensional modeling, data vault, or star schema.
- Experience with Big Data technologies (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks/Spark, Trino).
- Experience building real-time data pipelines and working with massive amounts of semi-structured data.
- Knowledge of data and cloud engineering best practices (data discovery, data documentation, infrastructure development/deployment, and information security).
- Experience working with Docker and container orchestration services (e.g., ECS, Kubernetes).
- Experience building data products with a security first mindset.
Desired Skills:
- Leadership experience in the data infrastructure domain, with a focus on building and maintaining data ecosystems at scale.
- Experience building the backend layer of data-intensive products.
- Familiarity with multi-petabyte data models and TB-scale ingestion workflows.
- Ability to clearly communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Passion for learning new technologies and staying current with industry trends.
- History of running POCs on emerging technologies and driving adoption where applicable.
- A proactive approach to mentoring and supporting team growth.
- Deep understanding of the software development lifecycle in an agile environment.
Join Klaviyo to lead our data ecosystems architectural evolution and drive data-driven innovation across the company.
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The pay range for this role is listed below. Sales roles are also eligible for variable compensation and hourly non-exempt roles are eligible for overtime in accordance with applicable law. This role is eligible for benefits, including: medical, dental and vision coverage, health savings accounts, flexible spending accounts, 401(k), flexible paid time off and company-paid holidays and a culture of learning that includes a learning allowance and access to a professional coaching service for all employees.
Get to Know Klaviyo
Were Klaviyo (pronounced clay-vee-oh). We empower creators to own their destiny by making first-party data accessible and actionable like never before. We see limitless potential for the technology were developing to nurture personalized experiences in ecommerce and beyond. To reach our goals, we need our own crew of remarkable creatorsambitious and collaborative teammates who stay focused on our north star: delighting our customers. If youre ready to do the best work of your career, where youll be welcomed as your whole self from day one and supported with generous benefits, we hope youll join us.
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