Lead Site Reliability Engineer - Embedded

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As a Lead Site Reliability Engineer joining the SRE team you can expect to be deeply involved in strategic discussions on how we design and evolve our infrastructure platform at Klaviyo, including rolling out new patterns and standards and growing the SRE team.  You will set direction for Working across the entire engineering org to do that. Learn more about our engineering culture at https://klaviyo.tech

The SRE team builds foundational backend services as well as tooling and automation to allow product teams to release and scale their software reliably and predictably. SREs are team players who embed themselves within product teams as needed to advance the architecture and performance of software systems and train their peers in topics such as debugging distributed systems, building self-healing applications and eking out every drop of performance possible.

How You Will Make a Difference 

• Provide technical leadership to drive technology choices and architectural decisions across multiple teams and provide solutions for complex problems around platform scalability and best practices
• Design and build the Embedded SRE program at Klaviyo, developing the processes to discover and solve Engineering’s biggest infrastructure and reliability pain points and shared challenges with an eye towards future growth, efficiency, and standardization at scale
• Embed on product engineering teams to observe the team's daily routine, identify the largest sources of stress and how to best address them, and work side-by-side with the team’s engineers to solicit buy-in for and execute these changes
• Mentor multiple engineers to develop new technical leadership for the company 
• Engineers come to Klaviyo with experience in a variety of languages and from a number of disciplines. All engineers are expected to become extremely proficient in the technologies we use (not exhaustive):
• Python, Django, Celery
• MySQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, Apache Pulsar
• Bash, Puppet, Terraform
• AmazonWeb Services (EC2, RDS, Aurora, etc.), Kubernetes on EKS

Who You Are 

• Have 10+ years of experience and have architected, built, and delivered at least one complex system.
• Have multiple years of proven experience building products that matter and pushing yourself and your team to be better engineers and build a product with passionate advocates
• You can build & scale complex distributed systems including solving problems in sustainable ways, balancing pragmatic development with ideal architecture, breaking through technical obstacles with vigor, and leading teams through crises by working side by side with them in the trenches
• You have demonstrated experience successfully navigating the tradeoffs of technical design decisions, risk assessment, and mitigation activities.
• Enjoy shipping code early & often in an agile fashion, pairing with product management to craft better software by soliciting feedback from thousands of end users