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Senior Lead Software Engineer - Data Platform
Klaviyo INC · 🇺🇸 Boston, MA
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 46 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 10 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Klaviyo INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles30 certified filings for “Senior Software Engineer” (Software Developers) in MA: $131k–$178k, median $155k. Most were filed at wage level III (37%) — 3 lottery entries, ≈46% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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Sponsor Radar — Klaviyo INC
The US Department of Labor certified 46 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 10 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
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. Senior Lead Software Engineer - Data Platform Team Overview The Data Platform organization owns the foundational data systems that power analytics, AI/ML, and product use cases across Klaviyo. This Senior Lead role is anchored in the Data Lake domain, while working broadly across Data Platform to support and align with adjacent teams. In practice, this role helps shape and connect the technical direction across lakehouse storage and compute, data onboarding and orchestration, modeled data layers, and the operational automation that keeps the platform reliable, observable, and usable at scale. The role requires strong judgment in connecting work across teams rather than optimizing only within a single technical boundary. The scope is not just to improve one system in isolation, but to make the broader data platform more trustworthy, scalable, and easier to operate. That includes aligning roadmaps across teams, supporting high-impact and complex cross-team projects, and helping represent Data Platform clearly to partner teams and stakeholders. How You’ll Make an Impact As a Senior Lead Software Engineer in Data Platform, with primary focus on Data Lake, you will: • Independently own and drive high-impact technical objectives that span multiple Data Platform teams, especially Data Lake while supporting work that intersects with Data Automation and Data Warehouse. • Help align technical roadmaps across Data Platform so teams are making coherent investments against shared priorities, dependencies, and long-term platform direction. • Lead large, complex, cross-team initiatives from discovery through rollout and long-term ownership, especially where success depends on coordination across organizational and technical boundaries. • Make high-judgment architectural decisions across core platform systems including lakehouse storage and compute, orchestration, modeled data layers, and operational automation, and create reference patterns that other teams can reuse. • Establish paved paths, standards, and shared abstractions that reduce repetitive manual work and make onboarding, operating, and evolving data systems dramatically faster and more reliable across the platform. • Partner closely with engineering, product, analytics, AI/ML, and governance stakeholders, and represent Data Platform clearly in cross-functional discussions that require both technical depth and strong external communication. • Help drive alignment on complex projects by clarifying trade-offs, surfacing dependencies early, and ensuring teams stay coordinated as priorities or execution details shift. • Be accountable, with team and engineering leaders, for the long-term technical health of the systems in your scope across reliability, scalability, performance, cost, security, and operational excellence. • Own the response to complex platform issues when needed, working directly with engineers across teams during high-severity situations and turning lessons learned into lasting improvements in architecture, operations, and communication. • Invest in the growth of senior and lead engineers through design reviews, RFC feedback, architectural coaching, and active participation in senior engineering hiring. Who You Are • You are passionate