Senior Software Engineer, Customer Agent

About Klaviyo Klaviyo (NYSE: KVYO) is the autonomous B2C CRM. Powered by its built-in data platform and AI, Klaviyo combines marketing automation, analytics, and customer service into one unified solution, making it easy for businesses to know their customers and grow faster. Klaviyo (CLAY-vee-oh) helps over 193,000 brands like Mattel, Glossier, Daily Harvest, and Liquid Death deliver 1:1 experiences at scale, improve efficiency, and drive revenue.

Klaviyo

Klaviyo is the autonomous CRM for B2C brands, built to turn what you know about your customers into real growth.

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klaviyo.com

1,001-5,000 employees

Marketing Services

Boston, Massachusetts

2012

Public Company

179k LinkedIn followers

Raised $1.3B

Required

• A proven track record of building high-quality products and systems, with pride in writing clean, maintainable, high-quality code.
• 7+ years of experience in a software engineering role.
• Strong experience developing end-to-end software solutions or extensive experience across both front-end and back-end technologies.
• Experience building scalable, customer-facing systems in fast-moving product environments - we operate like a startup inside of Klaviyo.
• Experience leading projects and being accountable for technical and business outcomes.
• Experience mentoring team members or driving initiatives that help the team grow and learn new skills.
• Experience conducting code reviews and maintaining a robust testing and deployment cycle.
• Curiosity and enthusiasm for AI-native product development, including practical experience experimenting with LLMs, AI tooling, or agentic workflows in professional or personal projects.
• Excitement about leveraging AI to improve engineering velocity, customer experiences, and operational workflows.
• A strong product mindset and willingness to collaborate cross-functionally to solve ambiguous problems with urgency and pragmatism.

Preferred

• Skills with Python and related technologies.
• Skills with React and related technologies.
• Experience building conversational AI systems, workflow engines, or agentic platforms.
• Experience with retrieval systems, embeddings, eval frameworks, or LLM orchestration patterns.
• Experience building cloud-native solutions, ideally with AWS.
• Experience developing customer support, commerce, marketing, or customer data software solutions.
• Experience with machine learning systems or AI infrastructure.
• Experience building multi-tenant or highly configurable SaaS platforms.
• Familiarity with observability, tracing, experimentation, or AI quality/evaluation tooling.
• 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.
• Our salary range reflects the cost of labor across various U.S. geographic markets. The range displayed below reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all our US locations. The base salary offered for this position is determined by several factors, including the applicant’s job-related skills, relevant experience, education or training, and work location.
• In addition to base salary, our total compensation package may include participation in the company’s annual cash bonus plan, variable compensation (OTE) for sales and customer success roles, equity, sign-on payments, and a comprehensive range of health, welfare, and wellbeing benefits based on eligibility.
• Your recruiter can provide more details about the specific salary/OTE range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
• Base Pay Range For US Locations
• $148,000—$222,000 USD
• This role may require up to 10% travel for purposes such as new hire onboarding, client or partner work if applicable, team meetings, and industry events. Travel is coordinated in advance.
• We’re 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 we’re developing to nurture personalized experiences in ecommerce and beyond. To reach our goals, we need our own crew of remarkable creators—ambitious and collaborative teammates who stay focused on our north star: delighting our customers. If you’re ready to do the best work of your career, where you’ll be welcomed as your whole self from day one and supported with generous benefits, we hope you’ll join us.
• AI fluency at Klaviyo includes responsible use of AI (including privacy, security, bias awareness, and human-in-the-loop). We provide accommodations as needed.
• IMPORTANT NOTICE: Our company takes the security and privacy of job applicants very seriously. We will never ask for payment, bank details, or personal financial information as part of the application process. All our legitimate job postings can be found on our official career site. Please be cautious of job offers that come from non-company email addresses (@klaviyo.com), instant messaging platforms, or unsolicited calls.

• Annual Cash Bonus Plan
• Equity
• Sign-on Payments
• Health Insurance
• Welfare Benefits
• Wellbeing Benefits