Data Engineering at Klaviyo

Roles, Comp & Culture

An L4 mid data engineer at Klaviyo sits around $370K total comp from 7 verified salary datapoints. The primary Data Engineering tech consists of Airflow, Beam and BigQuery, according to current job listings. Klaviyo pays data engineers above other Technology companies. Reviews put them at 3.4 on Glassdoor, toward the bottom of the pack. Employee sentiment at Klaviyo reads neutral and employee happiness has held flat over the past year. Layoff risk scores low for the next 30 days. 1 data engineering role is open right now.

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Klaviyo data engineer compensation

Each level's figure is the median of individual Klaviyo offers at that level, so it reflects a typical outcome rather than an average pulled up by a few large packages. Total comp counts base salary plus equity and bonus annualized over the vest, and the range shown is the middle half of offers, with the top and bottom quarters trimmed off.

L4Mid$370Kmedian
Base$228KRange$230K–$373KReports7 · 2-5 yrsKlaviyo loop
Updated 7 verified salary reports

Klaviyo employee sentiment, tracked weekly

Employee happiness for data engineers over the past year, so you can see which direction it is moving, not just where it sits today.

Neutralholding steady over the past year
20252026
Updated Klaviyo employee happiness

Recent Klaviyo events

Layoffs, leadership changes, and other major moves at the company, with dates.

  1. Exec departureMay 2026Leadership change
  2. Exec departureDec 2025Leadership change
  3. Exec departureAug 2025Leadership change
  4. Exec departureAug 2025Leadership change
Updated 4 Klaviyo events

Notable company events we track, with dates.

Klaviyo data engineering tech stack

The languages, storage, and processing tools Klaviyo data engineers actually work with, grouped by what they do. Tailor your system-design answers to this stack.

Languages
SQLSQL
Warehouse / SQL
BigQuery
Snowflake
Table formats
Hudi
IcebergIceberg
Streaming
BeamBeam
Flink
Kafka
Orchestration
Airflow
Dagster
Compute
Spark
Updated from current job listings

Klaviyo data engineer job openings

A live read on what they are hiring: open roles, recent postings, where, and at what level.

Klaviyo
Hiring now
Klaviyo data engineer · live from career pages
1
open roles
Where they hire
Boston
1
Levels hiring
L71
Updated 1 open listing across 1 city

Practice for the Klaviyo loop

Round by round, the problems our model predicts for this company's interview. Rehearse the shapes their panels keep returning to.

Preparing for the Klaviyo loop

The round-by-round process, example questions, and prep plan are on the interview guide.

Compare Klaviyo with other data engineering employers

How the role, pay, and loop stack up against peer companies.

02 / Why practice

Prepare at Klaviyo interview difficulty

  1. 01

    Reading a solution is not the same as writing one

    Every engineer who has frozen on a query they had read a dozen times knows the gap. The only preparation that closes it is producing the answer yourself, under time, before the interview does it for you

  2. 02

    76% of hiring managers reject on the coding task, not the resume

    From HackerRank's 2024 Developer Skills Report. Candidates who look strong on paper still fail the live screen if they haven't done timed, executable practice

  3. 03

    5 problem shapes cover 80% of data engineer loops

    Dedup, sessionization, top-N-per-group, slowly-changing dimensions, partition tricks. Writing the shapes by hand turns the unfamiliar into pattern recognition

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