Remote Principal Engineer

Summary

Join the team as our next Principal Engineer(Backend), on Twilio's Source team, leading architecture for the Source team inside the Platform Services group.

Requirements

• 9+ years experience writing production-grade code in a modern programming language
• Strong theoretical fundamentals and hands-on experience designing and implementing highly available and fault-tolerant distributed systems
• Experience programming in one or more of the following: Go, Java, Scala, or similar languages
• Experience operating large-scale, distributed systems on top of cloud infrastructure such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Compute Platform (GCP)
• Deep understanding of architectural patterns of high-scale web applications (e.g., well-designed APIs, high volume data pipelines, efficient algorithms)
• Domain expertise in Modern Data stack with experience in developing cloud-based data solution components and architecture covering data ingestion, data processing, and data storage
• Expertise in HDFS, Spark or streaming frameworks (Kafka/Spark streaming)
• Proficiency in NoSQL data stores and in-memory data stores (Redis, Memcached)
• Have hands-on experience with container orchestration frameworks (e.g., Kubernetes, EKS, ECS)
• Experience shipping services (products) following CI/CD development paradigm
• Have a track record of successfully leading teams and large projects or owning and building a complex system end to end
• Ability to influence and build effective working relationships with all levels of the organization
• Are passionate about enabling other developers through your leadership and driving teams to efficient decisions
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Responsibilities

• Lead our Source team to build, evaluate, deploy and iterate on large scale data and pipelines
• Design, review and build core systems that power Twilio Segment and Twilio Engage
• Partner with other engineering leads across Twilio to build world-class products
• Ensure world-class reliability, security and cost-efficiency for all the products we build
• Mentor other engineers on the team throughout their journey

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Generous time-off
• Ample parental and wellness leave
• Healthcare
• A retirement savings program