Twilio is hiring a
Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join the team as a Staff Software Engineer for our Segment Platform Team. Twilio powers real-time business communications and data solutions that help companies and developers build better applications and customer experiences worldwide. Although we're headquartered in San Francisco, we have a presence throughout South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. We're on a journey to becoming a globally anti-racist, anti-oppressive, anti-bias company that opposes racism and all forms of oppression and bias. At Twilio, we support diversity, equity & inclusion wherever we do business.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience writing production-grade code in Golang, Java, or Scala
• Strong hands-on experience in designing and implementing highly available, fault-tolerant, and performant distributed systems
• Experience operating large-scale distributed systems on top of cloud infrastructure
• Proficiency in programming with one or more of the following: Go, Java, Scala, or similar languages
• Hands-on experience with container orchestration frameworks (e.g., Kubernetes, EKS, ECS)
• Experience working with data platforms or data pipelines
• Deep understanding of architectural patterns for high-scale web applications (e.g., well-designed APIs, high-volume data pipelines, efficient algorithms)
• Experience shipping services (products) following the CI/CD development paradigm
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and build the next generation platform and product capabilities (Foundations, Governance etc), process billions of events, handling massive event volumes, and driving diverse functionalities and power various use cases across Twilio Data and Applications
• Build high-performance data pipelines using Go, Scala/Spark, and Kafka
• Build highly scalable and robust APIs to ingest and access data for internal teams , customers and external use cases
• Build and optimize globally available and highly scalable distributed systems
• Collaborate with teams across the engineering organization to ensure services are multi-region capable and meet regulatory requirements
• Mentor other engineers on the team on technical architecture and design
• Participate in an on-call rotation to support our business-critical Tire 0 services

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience programming in Go or Scala
• Domain expertise in the modern data stack, including cloud-based data solution components and architecture, covering data ingestion, data processing, and data storage
• A track record of successfully leading teams, large projects, or building an important, complex system end-to-end
• Ability to influence and build effective working relationships with all levels of the organization
• Passionate about enabling other developers through your leadership and driving teams toward efficient decisions

Benefits

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