Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer

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At Klaviyo, we value the unique backgrounds, experiences and perspectives each Klaviyo (we call ourselves Klaviyos) brings to our workplace each and every day. We believe everyone deserves a fair shot at success and appreciate the experiences each person brings beyond the traditional job requirements. If you’re a close but not exact match with the description, we hope you’ll still consider applying. Want to learn more about life at Klaviyo? Visit klaviyo.com/careers to see how we empower creators to own their own destiny.

At Klaviyo, we believe the future of software lies not in productivity tools for human users but in software that can run and optimize itself based on outcome or reward metrics. We’ve built the infrastructure and application that serve as the interface between businesses and consumers. We now have over 167,000 customers, billions of consumer profiles, and hundreds of billions of customer messages and follow-on conversion data. We are building state-of-the-art AI and machine learning technologies at Klaviyo to power Composer, as well as personalization products such as smart send time, audience optimization and product recommendations.

As a Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer , you will help build the core platforms, tools, and infrastructure that ML and AI engineers rely on to create advanced agents and models powering Klaviyo’s products. You will drive key technical initiatives for training and deploying models , unifying and standardizing feature data , and scaling systems that must operate reliably at Klaviyo’s data and traffic scale.

This is a backend-heavy, hands-on technical individual contributor role. You will lead technical execution, conduct code and design reviews, author high-impact code for critical system paths, and collaborate closely with product, ML, data science, and infrastructure partners to deliver durable, high-leverage platforms that accelerate AI development across Klaviyo.

This role is based in Boston.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Enable AI / ML teams across Klaviyo to ship new models and ML-powered features faster, more safely, and more reliably.
• Evolve our ML and LLM platform architecture so teams can build, evaluate, and operate production ML systems with consistent patterns and best practices.
• Improve reliability, observability, and cost efficiency of ML training, inference, and other ML workloads that serve features like smart send time, audience optimization and product recommendations.
• Raise the bar on engineering and operational excellence for systems that support 167K+ customers and billions of events.
• Architect and scale systems supporting feature storage and real-time retrieval for training and inference datasets

What You’ll Do

• Work closely with AI & ML application teams to design seamless workflows for continuous model training, inference, and monitoring
• Lead technical execution, conduct code and design reviews, and author high-impact code for critical syste

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