Engineering Manager, Developer Infrastructure

Engineering Manager, Developer Infrastructure

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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.

The Developer Infrastructure team at Klaviyo is at the heart of our engineering organization, dedicated to accelerating Klaviyo development. We build and maintain the "paved path" that allows engineers to maximize their focus on business objectives by minimizing time spent on build and deployment systems, foundational software "building blocks," and development environments. Our core pillars are Speed, Quality, and AI Enablement
, aiming to empower engineers with efficient, high‑quality tools that enhance productivity and drive business growth.

• Strategic Leadership:
  Define the technical vision and roadmap for developer infrastructure, aligning with Klaviyo's overarching engineering and business goals.
• Enhance Developer Productivity:
  Drive initiatives to improve platform cycle time metrics across the board, including PR CI Speed, Human Code Review Pickup Time, and Commit Velocity by Repo. This involves a relentless focus on reducing toil and increasing engineering efficiency.
• Optimize Development Environments:
  Champion the improvement of local development environments, addressing challenges such as complex service setups and ephemeral test environments.
• Platform Ownership:
  Oversee platform and dependency upgrades for our major languages, ensuring performance, security, and developer efficiency.
• Streamline CI/CD Pipelines:
  Lead the evolution of our Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.

You will own the day‑to‑day operations, team mentoring and coaching, and help the engineers on your team grow their careers.

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2+ years in a Senior Management or similar role, preferably in developer infrastructure or platform engineering. Experience leading other engineering managers.
• Deep understanding of modern software development practices, including CI/CD, local development environments, and cloud infrastructure (AWS).
• Hands‑on coding with proficiency in Python, Typescript, and/or Go.
• Experience with Kubernetes (K8s) and related deployment platforms.
• Track record of diagnosing and solving complex technical challenges related to developer workflows, build systems, and testing.
• Ability to inspire, mentor, and grow a team of highly skilled engineers, fostering a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to articulate technical strategies, influence stakeholders, and facilitate cross‑functional collaboration.
• Experience experimenting with AI in work or personal projects; enthusiasm to explore new AI tools and workflows responsibly.

• Experience with specific tools such as Pants, FastAPI, Django, React, Terraform, Buildkite.
• Background in performance optimization.
• Familiarity with complex data management for testing, including large datasets and production‑like data replication.
• Experience with frontend development workflows, particularly with React and tools like Cypress or Jest in Fender.

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