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Klaviyo

Principal Engineer, Enterprise Scalability

Klaviyo

. Own Klaviyo’s approach to enterprise scalability, performance, reliability, and multi-region readiness .

Posted 11/3/2026full-timeRemote • Massachusetts • United StatesLead💰 $244,000 - $366,000 per yearWebsite

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Demonstrates extensive experience in scaling multi-tenant SaaS applications, with a strong focus on performance engineering, capacity planning, and implementing multi-region architectures. Proficient in leading technical incident reviews and communicating complex technical decisions to both engineering and executive teams.

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Performance EngineeringCapacity PlanningMulti-Tenant SaaS ScalingAI Tools ApplicationTechnical Incident Management

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Hard Skills
ShardingPartitioningCachingBack-PressureWorkload IsolationData MigrationBenchmarkingProfilingProduction Code WritingSystem Evaluation
Soft Skills
Team AlignmentTechnical CommunicationJudgment in Architectural Tradeoffs
Tools & Technologies
KlaviyoAI-Assisted ProfilingSynthetic TrafficAnomaly DetectionGuided Runbooks
Industry Keywords
Enterprise ScalabilityService-Level ObjectivesError BudgetsPerformance ExpectationsResponsible AI Fluency

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Own Klaviyo’s approach to enterprise scalability, performance, reliability, and multi-region readiness
  • Identify and remove major bottlenecks using production data, profiling, and reproducible benchmarks
  • Establish measurable targets for latency, throughput, error rates, and capacity
  • Build a shared scale-readiness scorecard and align teams on service-level objectives, error budgets, and performance expectations
  • Design and implement sharding, partitioning, caching, back-pressure, workload isolation, and multi-region strategies
  • Build safe paths for high-volume data migrations
  • Create benchmarks, profiling harnesses, and test environments for independent team use
  • Lead scalability reviews and establish release gates
  • Lead technical incident deep dives, identify systemic causes, and deliver lasting fixes
  • Apply AI-assisted profiling, workload modeling, synthetic traffic, anomaly detection, and guided runbooks with guardrails
  • Communicate priorities, tradeoffs, and results to engineers and executives
  • Report to the VP of Engineering as a senior individual contributor with no direct reports

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 12+ years of relevant engineering experience
  • Deep experience scaling multi-tenant SaaS
  • Track record of removing significant bottlenecks and demonstrating measurable production impact
  • Hands-on experience with performance engineering, capacity planning, sharding and partitioning, caching, back-pressure, tenant isolation, multi-region architectures, and large-scale migrations
  • Ability to investigate unfamiliar systems, test hypotheses, write production code, and roll out changes safely
  • Sound technical judgment to evaluate architectural tradeoffs
  • Ability to align teams around shared outcomes, clarify ownership, and establish practical standards
  • Ability to explain complex technical decisions and business implications to engineering and executive audiences
  • Applied AI tools or automation experience in engineering work
  • Ability to evaluate AI usefulness, limitations, and operational risks
  • Responsible AI fluency, including privacy, security, bias awareness, and human-in-the-loop practices

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Annual cash bonus plan may be included
  • Equity may be included
  • Sign-on payments may be included
  • Comprehensive health, welfare, and wellbeing benefits based on eligibility
  • Up to 10% travel, coordinated in advance
  • Generous benefits
  • Accommodations as needed