Senior Software Engineer, Customer Agent

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Massachusetts Applicants

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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.

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.

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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.