Director, Site Reliability Engineering
KlaviyoCRM, Email company
Dublin, IrelandDirector
Employee Stock Option Fund
Irving Investors
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Lead and build a Site Reliability Engineering team in Dublin, ensuring platform integrity and scalability.
- •Klaviyo is seeking a foundational leader to build and lead its Site Reliability Engineering functions from its new strategic hub in Dublin.
- •This role will be responsible for the secure reliability, scalability, and performance of Klaviyo's entire platform.
- •Key Responsibilities Define the vision, strategy, and roadmap for a unified SRE organization.
- •Build and mentor a world-class, multi-disciplinary team of engineers in Dublin.
- •Own the availability, latency, performance, and capacity planning for Klaviyo’s global platform.
- •Drive automation through self-service tooling and infrastructure.
- •Serve as the on-the-ground technical leader for GDPR and other international data protection regulations.
- •Requirements 12+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 5+ years in a leadership role managing SRE, DevOps, or Security Engineering teams.
- •Proven experience building and scaling engineering teams, ideally with experience establishing a new team or office.
- •Deep, hands-on experience with cloud-native production systems at scale (AWS preferred).
- •Strong technical background in distributed systems, observability, container orchestration (Kubernetes), infrastructure as code (Terraform), and CI/CD principles.
- •Experience managing geographically distributed teams and fostering a strong, unified culture across multiple time zones.
Required skills
AWSKubernetesTerraformCI/CDDockerLinuxPythonJavaScriptGitGDPREngineering Management
Nice-to-have skills
DatadogPagerDutyPostgreSQLMySQLRedisElasticsearch
Domain expertise
ecommerce
Tech stack
AWSKubernetesTerraformCI/CDDockerLinuxPythonJavaScriptGitPostgreSQLMySQLRedisElasticsearchDatadogPagerDuty