Lead IT Systems Engineer, Klaviyo

$120-180k

AWS
GCP
JavaScript
Python
macOS
Bash
iOS
Okta
Senior level
Boston

1+ day a week in office

Klaviyo

Intelligent marketing automation powered by customer data

Job no longer available

Klaviyo

Intelligent marketing automation powered by customer data

1001+ employees

B2BMarketingContenteCommerce

Job no longer available

$120-180k

AWS
GCP
JavaScript
Python
macOS
Bash
iOS
Okta
Senior 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

  • 5+ years of experience leading systems administrator teams or equivalent
  • You’re experienced with writing problem statements and managing technical projects
  • You’re a subject matter expert on a wide range of IT systems, from enterprise device management to endpoint security
  • You have extensive experience deploying hundreds of macOS and iOS devices at scale and building configuration profiles and policies
  • You’re excited about automating workflows and repetitive tasks
  • Experience deploying SAML and SCIM in a diverse set of SaaS applications
  • Passion for clean, concise controls and easily editable security functionality within each tool
  • You have experience working with enterprise scale networking topics including routing and DNS and building & maintaining a number of global office networks and VPNs
  • Knowledgeable in vendor management and IT budget management

Desirable

  • You’ve worked with Okta and Okta Workflows or other similar SSO and automation solutions
  • You have experience as a systems administrator or systems engineer in a fast-paced and high-growth IT environment
  • Ability to build applications and tools that provide and/or use APIs to transfer data
  • Experience with scripting or developing in Python, Bash, or Javascript
  • Experience with VPC, EC2, Security Groups, ACLs, IAM in AWS and GCP

What the job involves

  • Klaviyo’s global corporate Information Technology (IT) team is responsible for providing technology systems, administration, and support to Klaviyos around the world. Our main goal is to ensure that Klaviyos everywhere have a strong technology foundation to do great work
  • The IT Team solves problems using technology and provides Klaviyo’s continued scalability and sustainable employee growth in a rapidly evolving environment
  • The IT Systems team is primarily responsible for SaaS systems administration and end-to-end lifecycle management, building automation, and engineering solutions for both other internal teams and the business.
  • The IT Systems team is highly collaborative, working closely with the IT Searchbar team — our end-user support team — as well as with our Security, Risk, and Trust teams and the broader Engineering department
  • As a Lead IT Systems Engineer on the IT Systems team, you’ll be a final point of escalation for systems related issues from the Searchbar (Helpdesk) team and other members of the Systems team.
  • You’ll provide effective support for Klaviyos wide range of enterprise SaaS systems - maintaining, improving, and building new integrations and technologies.
  • You’ll work on a wide range of projects that vary from SSO or SCIM setups to complicated multi-tool integrations and automations.
  • You’ll work closely with other operations and engineering teams as well as the IT Searchbar team, all under the leadership of the IT Systems manager
  • You’ll mentor team members to grow and develop in their careers and help increase their scope and impact throughout their tenure at Klaviyo
  • Both give and receive meaningful feedback focusing on empathy, curiosity, and investment in growth
  • Establish team standards, implement frameworks for intake and prioritization of projects and tasks, and establish and monitor objectives and key results (OKRs)
  • Partner with the stakeholders to build, maintain, and improve tooling/infrastructure and documentation that helps meet the business needs for today and the future
  • Collaborate with IT and internal teams to automate and improve workflows, implement and enhance escalation processes, and drive IT initiatives
  • Implement new processes, and evaluate and improve existing processes

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

Leadership

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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