Twilio is hiring a
Staff Software Engineer in Estonia

Summary

The job is for a Staff Software Engineer position at Twilio's Tallinn office or remotely within Estonia. The role involves building out a team to support global customers using Video and Voice solutions, participating in all phases of software development life cycle, mentoring junior team members, and working with high throughput and low latency requirements.

Requirements

• Minimum 6 years of hands-on experience in a large scale, distributed applications environment on JVM based technologies
• Able to demonstrate proficiency in at least one language, web stack and framework
• Hands on experience scaling production backend systems, with the proven ability to design and develop horizontally-scalable, resilient and performing-under-load systems
• Experience scaling data tiers employing a variety of SQL/NoSQL database and caching technologies
• Hands on experience with cloud technologies such as AWS, GCP, OpenStack or Azure
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related engineering field
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals not limited to data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems
• Able to work well in a team setting and both highly motivated and motivating

Responsibilities

• Design and implement real-time services with high throughput and low latency requirements, verify, deploy and operationalize them
• Work closely with stakeholders to understand customer needs and, devise and deliver, simple, robust and scalable solutions
• Be comfortable expressing thoughts and ideas as detailed prose and use it as an effective means to collaborate with leads, architects and cross functional teams
• Embrace the challenge of scaling a complex distributed platform with points of presence globally, each one concerned with high availability, high reliability, high throughput, low latency, and media fidelity
• Figure out novel ways of solving customer problems for Video and Voice channels

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge and experience working with the webRTC protocol
• Knowledge  and experience working with SIP protocol

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Generous time-off
• Amply parental and wellness leave
• Healthcare
• Retirement savings program