Lead Software Engineer, Distributed Systems - Messaging
Klaviyo · Dublin, IE
Posted about 3 months ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 80 days Klaviyo's roles stay open a median of 80 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Klaviyo's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Klaviyo
- high 141 stale, 6 reposted of 141 open
- Hiring momentum
- 203 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-22
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Klaviyo's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Klaviyo.
About this role
As a Technical Lead in the Messaging Infrastructure organization at Klaviyo, you will lead a team of engineers in building and scaling real-time, event-driven messaging services. Your role involves driving technical strategy, owning critical components of the messaging pipeline, and collaborating with various teams to enhance messaging capabilities. You will also be responsible for mentoring engineers and ensuring best practices in system design and code quality.
- benefits
- 3/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Klaviyo as an employer.
What you need
- 8+ years of engineering experience building and operating online, real-time distributed systems
- Experience with production services measured in messages/events per second
- Familiarity with streaming or message-queue platforms (Kafka, Pulsar, RabbitMQ, SQS, or similar)
- Experience architecting distributed, event-driven systems at scale
- Proficient in Python and/or Go
- Skilled in scaling infrastructure on AWS under unpredictable load
What you get
- Base salary range of €112,000 — €168,000 EUR
- Participation in the company’s annual cash bonus plan
- Variable compensation (OTE) for sales and customer success roles
- Equity and sign-on payments
- Comprehensive range of health, welfare, and wellbeing benefits based on eligibility
Worth weighing
- No specific mention of the technologies used beyond Python and Go, which may indicate a focus on those languages
- The role may require up to 10% travel, which could impact work-life balance
- The posting encourages candidates who are close but not exact matches to apply, indicating flexibility in qualifications
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Listed by Klaviyo on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-22. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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