Software Engineer - Messaging Infrastructure
Senior Lead Software Engineer - Messaging Infrastructure position — see original posting for full details.
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About Klaviyo
Klaviyo is a leading marketing automation platform that helps businesses grow by delivering personalized experiences. Our mission is to empower creators to own their destiny. We believe in providing an exceptional developer experience that enables our engineering teams to build and ship high-quality software efficiently and with confidence.
About the Team
The Messaging Infra organization at Klaviyo is focused on high-growth customer engagement through various messaging channels (email, SMS/MMS/RCS, mobile push, WhatsApp, and more). We work with multiple stakeholders to provide best-in-class service and reliability to connect a wide range of businesses, from entrepreneurs to enterprises, with their end users. The messaging platform is a mission-critical system, responsible for delivering billions of messages, and must be architected for massive scale and reliability.
As a Senior Lead Software Engineer within the Messaging Infra organization, you will serve as the primary technical architect for our high-volume message delivery systems while driving the overarching technical vision for channel expansion. You will partner with leaders across all channels to ensure a scalable, reliable, and performant platform strategy, acting as a key technical liaison to the broader Mobile Channels and Messaging Infrastructure pillar. Your leadership will ensure that our core systems are not just maintained, but architected to accelerate innovation and business impact while raising the bar on scalability and reliability.
What You'll Do
As a Senior Lead Software Engineer, you will have an overarching responsibility for the architecture, health, and scaling of the Messaging Infra platform with a focus on high-volume message delivery. Your role will involve:
Posted June 7, 2026