Senior Security Risk Engineer, Klaviyo

$116-174k

SQL
AWS
Kubernetes
Python
Airflow
Snowflake
dbt
Senior and Expert level
Boston

1+ day a week in office

Klaviyo

Intelligent marketing automation powered by customer data

Open for applications

Klaviyo

Intelligent marketing automation powered by customer data

1001+ employees

B2BMarketingContenteCommerce

Open for applications

$116-174k

SQL
AWS
Kubernetes
Python
Airflow
Snowflake
dbt
Senior and Expert level
Boston

1+ day a week in office

1001+ employees

B2BMarketingContenteCommerce

Company mission

To give online brands direct ownership of their consumer data and interactions, empowering them to turn transactions with customers into long-term relationships—at scale.

Role

Who you are

  • Experience building security data products at scale, ideally using SQL, dbt, Airflow, Airbyte, Snowflake
  • Experience building metrics using data visualization tools, ideally using Apache Superset
  • Experience writing code to build on and integrate with web application APIs, ideally using Python and REST APIs
  • A strong bias toward evidence, logic, math, and reason when communicating risk (instead of fear, uncertainty, and doubt)
  • A strong bias toward “guardrails, not gates” and “paved security roads” philosophies (instead of rigid “centralized command-and-control” processes and operating styles)
  • Excellent ability to plan, prioritize, and deliver results cross-functionally and in a timely fashion
  • Proficiency discussing complex, nuanced topics with technical & non-technical audiences alike, especially software engineers
  • Strong alignment with Klaviyo’s core values

Desirable

  • Experience designing, building, or implementing technical security controls in AWS
  • Experience with cyber risk quantification (CRQ) tools and frameworks, such as riskquant and FAIR
  • Experience with threat modeling or secure design reviews
  • Experience in security operations, security engineering, and/or security architecture
  • Experience or knowledge of securing web applications, Kubernetes clusters, and/or containers

What the job involves

  • We’re seeking a highly collaborative Senior Security Risk Engineer who will help us continue to evolve our Risk function by using engineering principles and data-driven strategies to precisely identify, understand, communicate, and prioritize mitigation of risk
  • This role will start out primarily focused on supporting our security metrics program, with a big focus on data engineering and making security metrics easily accessible and highly impactful for stakeholders
  • You’ll partner closely with Engineering, IT, Security, Leadership, and basically every other team at Klaviyo to create a holistic view of risk based on high-quality data about our assets, weaknesses, threats, and safeguards (controls)
  • You will help evolve our risk management practices to be transparent, evidence-based, and centered around quantitative risk models
  • Through all of this, Klaviyo will be in a much better position to sustainably grow and deliver value to our customers
  • Build and curate security metrics (KPIs, KRIs, KCIs) that provide actionable, real-time risk insights that answer meaningful business questions
  • Automate and streamline third-party and internal security risk management processes
  • Assist with risk management operations, including risk assessments and risk reviews
  • Identify and assess risks using qualitative and quantitative methods, such as FAIR
  • Co-create security standards and risk plans with InfoSec and partner team subject matter experts

Our take

Klaviyo is a marketing firm helping growth-focused eCommerce brands drive more sales with super-targeted, highly relevant email, Facebook and Instagram marketing campaigns. From personalised newsletters to automated emails when customers abandon their shopping carts, the marketing automation platform makes it easy for businesses to capture, store, analyze, and predictively use their own data to drive measurable, high-value outcomes.

Klaviyo's CEO, Bialecki, believes that the main problem with e-mail marketing today is that there is a divide between two kinds of tools: analytics tools that help you understand what people are doing on a website, such as what products they are considering, and messaging tools that send them a marketing e-mail. Operating primarily within the retail and eCommerce industry, Klaviyo aims to solve this by offering a tool that brings together analytics and messaging. This allows companies to bring all of their first-party data into a single platform to get a deep understanding of their customers and then activate that data to deliver highly-targeted, personalised communications through email and SMS. In the process, Klaviyo's customers get a deep understanding of their consumers.

Klaviyo is a fast-growing company mainly due to its business model - the firm offers a concrete ROI for Klaviyo’s clients if the software persuades customers to make purchases by treating different types of customers differently. An IPO in 2023 has led to Klaviyo's release of Klaviyo AI, which empowers businesses to unlock revenue-driving opportunities and deliver exceptional customer experiences across channels. Still in its early days of public listing, it will be interesting to see how Klaviyo fares in the years to come.

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Opportunities to learn

"Not only we have a good stipend to spend on learning but we also have development days every quarter, where we can switch off and focus on the areas..."

Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)

Aug 2022

$100m

LATE VC

May 2021

$320m

SERIES D

Total funding: $778.5m

Company benefits

  • Private health care cover
  • All full time employees receive equity
  • Commuting allowance for when you do travel to the office,
  • A very generous education allowance every year for you to spend on learning and development.
  • Free books policy - if you’re better off for having read it (or listened to it—audiobooks are covered too!) we’ll pay for it.
  • Generous and flexible PTO policy
  • Participation in Klaviyo ESPP

Company values

  • We always put our customers first.
  • We are owners.
  • We strive to make the world more equitable.
  • We are ambitious.
  • We are always learning.
  • We collaborate radically.
  • We are remarkable.

Company HQ

Financial District, Boston, MA

Founders

Previously CTO at RockTech, Senior Engineer at Performable, Lead Engineer at Applied Predictive Technologies and an SDET Intern at Microsoft

Ed Hallen

(Chief Product Officer)

Currently an Advisor at Team Engine. Previously worked in Enterprise Business Development at Google, Summer Associate at Accel-KKR and Principal at Applied Predictive Technologies.

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Diversity & Inclusion at Klaviyo

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Katelyn Nnake (Director of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion)

  • At Klaviyo one of our key values is "we strive to make the world more equitable"
  • In 2023 over 75% of Klaviyos participated in a Klaviyo Resource Group

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