Senior Software Engineer - Customer Agent

Posted 16 Hours Ago
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Boston, MA, USA
Hybrid
148K-222K Annually
Senior level
Consumer Web • eCommerce • Marketing Tech • Retail • Software • Analytics • Generative AI
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The Role
Design, build, and scale an AI-native conversational platform powering autonomous customer agents. Own full-stack systems, retrieval and orchestration, observability, and multi-channel experiences. Lead technical decisions, mentor engineers, and deliver reliable, tested, customer-facing features that enable brands to launch and improve configurable AI agents.
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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.

About the Role

Our team is looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer to help build the future of Customer Agent, Klaviyo’s AI-native conversational platform. In this role, you’ll play a critical part in shaping how autonomous service, AI-driven support, and agentic commerce experiences evolve at scale across millions of customer interactions.

You’ll work across the stack to design, build, and scale systems that power intelligent workflows, conversational experiences, tools integrations, retrieval systems, onboarding flows, observability, and multi-channel customer engagement. You’ll help develop both foundational platform capabilities and customer-facing experiences that enable brands to launch, customize, and continuously improve their own highly-configurable AI agents.

As a Senior Engineer, you’ll tackle complex technical and product challenges, develop multiple solution paths, and evaluate business and architectural trade-offs to determine the best approach. You’ll also act as a technical leader and mentor, driving engineering quality, execution, and decision-making across projects. Additionally, you’ll be responsible for deploying well-designed, thoroughly tested solutions that prioritize reliability, scalability, and customer impact.

The Customer Agent team is building one of Klaviyo’s most ambitious and strategic product areas: an extensible AI platform that enables brands to deliver personalized, autonomous customer experiences across channels like chat, email, SMS, and beyond. We operate with high ownership, rapid iteration cycles, and a strong bias toward execution. Every engineer is expected to think holistically about customer outcomes, collaborate deeply across engineering, product, design, data science, and go-to-market teams, and push beyond traditional role boundaries to help the team move faster.

Success in this role means shipping high-quality systems quickly, contributing to foundational platform decisions, improving the intelligence and reliability of our agent experiences, and helping define how AI-powered customer engagement evolves at Klaviyo.

What We’re Looking For

  • A proven track record of building high-quality products and systems, with pride in writing clean, maintainable, high-quality code.
  • 7+ years of experience in a software engineering role.
  • Strong experience developing end-to-end software solutions or extensive experience across both front-end and back-end technologies.
  • Experience building scalable, customer-facing systems in fast-moving product environments - we operate like a startup inside of Klaviyo.
  • Experience leading projects and being accountable for technical and business outcomes.
  • Experience mentoring team members or driving initiatives that help the team grow and learn new skills.
  • Experience conducting code reviews and maintaining a robust testing and deployment cycle.
  • Curiosity and enthusiasm for AI-native product development, including practical experience experimenting with LLMs, AI tooling, or agentic workflows in professional or personal projects.
  • Excitement about leveraging AI to improve engineering velocity, customer experiences, and operational workflows.
  • A strong product mindset and willingness to collaborate cross-functionally to solve ambiguous problems with urgency and pragmatism.

Nice to Have

  • Skills with Python and related technologies.
  • Skills with React and related technologies.
  • Experience building conversational AI systems, workflow engines, or agentic platforms.
  • Experience with retrieval systems, embeddings, eval frameworks, or LLM orchestration patterns.
  • Experience building cloud-native solutions, ideally with AWS.
  • Experience developing customer support, commerce, marketing, or customer data software solutions.
  • Experience with machine learning systems or AI infrastructure.
  • Experience building multi-tenant or highly configurable SaaS platforms.
  • Familiarity with observability, tracing, experimentation, or AI quality/evaluation tooling.

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Our salary range reflects the cost of labor across various U.S. geographic markets. The range displayed below reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all our US locations. The base salary offered for this position is determined by several factors, including the applicant’s job-related skills, relevant experience, education or training, and work location.

In addition to base salary, our total compensation package may include participation in the company’s annual cash bonus plan, variable compensation (OTE) for sales and customer success roles, equity, sign-on payments, and a comprehensive range of health, welfare, and wellbeing benefits based on eligibility. 

Your recruiter can provide more details about the specific salary/OTE range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Base Pay Range For US Locations:
$148,000$222,000 USD

This role may require up to 10% travel for purposes such as new hire onboarding, client or partner work if applicable, team meetings, and industry events. Travel is coordinated in advance.

Get to Know Klaviyo

We’re Klaviyo (pronounced clay-vee-oh). We empower creators to own their destiny by making first-party data accessible and actionable like never before. We see limitless potential for the technology we’re developing to nurture personalized experiences in ecommerce and beyond. To reach our goals, we need our own crew of remarkable creators—ambitious and collaborative teammates who stay focused on our north star: delighting our customers. If you’re ready to do the best work of your career, where you’ll be welcomed as your whole self from day one and supported with generous benefits, we hope you’ll join us.

AI fluency at Klaviyo includes responsible use of AI (including privacy, security, bias awareness, and human-in-the-loop). We provide accommodations as needed. 

By participating in Klaviyo’s interview process, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and will adhere to our Guidelines for using AI in the Klaviyo interview Process. For more information about how we process your personal data, see our Job Applicant Privacy Notice.

Klaviyo is committed to a policy of equal opportunity and non-discrimination. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, citizenship, national origin, color, religion or religious creed, age, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, veteran or active military status, marital status, criminal record, genetics, retaliation, sexual harassment or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Our company takes the security and privacy of job applicants very seriously. We will never ask for payment, bank details, or personal financial information as part of the application process. All our legitimate job postings can be found on our official career site. Please be cautious of job offers that come from non-company email addresses (@klaviyo.com), instant messaging platforms, or unsolicited calls.
 
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Skills Required

  • 7+ years of experience in a software engineering role.
  • Proven track record building high-quality products and systems; writing clean, maintainable code.
  • Strong experience developing end-to-end software solutions or across both front-end and back-end technologies.
  • Experience building scalable, customer-facing systems in fast-moving product environments.
  • Experience leading projects and being accountable for technical and business outcomes.
  • Experience mentoring team members or driving initiatives that help team growth.
  • Experience conducting code reviews and maintaining a robust testing and deployment cycle.
  • Practical experience experimenting with LLMs, AI tooling, or agentic workflows.
  • Strong product mindset and willingness to collaborate cross-functionally to solve ambiguous problems.
  • Python (nice to have).
  • React (nice to have).
  • Experience building conversational AI systems, workflow engines, or agentic platforms (nice to have).
  • Experience with retrieval systems, embeddings, eval frameworks, or LLM orchestration patterns (nice to have).
  • Experience building cloud-native solutions, ideally with AWS (nice to have).
  • Experience with machine learning systems or AI infrastructure (nice to have).
  • Experience building multi-tenant or highly configurable SaaS platforms (nice to have).
  • Familiarity with observability, tracing, experimentation, or AI quality/evaluation tooling (nice to have).

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The Company
Boston, MA
2,400 Employees
Year Founded: 2012

What We Do

Klaviyo (NYSE: KVYO) is the B2C CRM. Powered by its built-in data platform and AI, Klaviyo combines marketing automation, analytics, and customer service into one unified solution, making it easy for businesses to know their customers and grow faster. Klaviyo (CLAY-vee-oh) helps over 183,000 brands like Mattel, Glossier, Daily Harvest, and Liquid Death deliver 1:1 experiences at scale, improve efficiency, and drive revenue.

Why Work With Us

We refer to our employees as ‘Klaviyos’, and we make up a diverse community united around shared values: We’re curious, collaborative, driven, innovative, fun, and fully ourselves at work. No matter which team you join, your work won’t just impact Klaviyo. It’ll help empower our customers and enable creators across the globe to own their destinies.

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