✦ Luna Orbit — DevOps & SRE

Senior Software Engineer, Asynchronous Processing

at Klaviyo

📍 Boston, MA Onsite Posted March 18, 2026
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Position Details

Type Full-Time
Experience senior
Exp. Years 4+ years
Education Not specified
Category DevOps & SRE

About this role

Senior platform engineer responsible for designing and operating large-scale, resilient, distributed systems and queueing platforms.

Key Responsibilities

  • Build scalable queueing systems
  • Design resilient distributed platforms
  • Collaborate with engineering teams
  • Implement autoscaling and failure isolation
  • Ensure system performance

Technical Overview

Environment includes Golang, Python, Apache Pulsar, Kafka, SQS, Kubernetes, AWS, focusing on scalability, resilience, and failure handling.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a senior platform engineer with extensive experience in large-scale distributed systems, proficient in Golang, Python, and cloud technologies like AWS and Kubernetes. They excel at designing resilient, scalable infrastructure and collaborating with engineering teams.

Must-Have Skills

Experience with large-scale distributed systemsBuilding queueing and processing platformsDesigning resilientscalable systemsPartnering with engineering teams

Nice-to-Have Skills

KubernetesAWSApache PulsarKafkaSQSAutoscalingFailure handling

Tools & Platforms

GolangPythonApache PulsarKafkaSQSKubernetesAWS

Required Skills

Distributed systemsQueueing platformsGolangPythonApache PulsarKafkaSQSKubernetesAWSScalabilityResilienceAutoscalingFailure isolationPlatform primitives

Hard Skills

Distributed systemsQueueing platformsGolangPythonApache PulsarKafkaSQSKubernetesAWSScalabilityResilienceAutoscalingFailure isolationPlatform primitives

Soft Skills

System designProblem-solvingCollaborationCommunicationInnovation

Industry & Role

Industry SaaS
Job Function Distributed systems and platform development
Role Subtype Platform Engineer
Tech Domains Golang, Python, Apache Pulsar, Kafka, Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes

Keywords for Your Resume

distributed systemsqueueing platformsgolangpythonapache pulsarkafkasqskubernetesawsscalabilityresilienceautoscalingfailure isolationplatform primitivessystem designlarge-scale systemsdistributed workloads

Deal Breakers

Lack of experience with distributed systems, No experience with queueing platforms or cloud infrastructure, Insufficient knowledge of system design

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