Twilio is hiring a
Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join the team as Twilio’s next Staff Software Engineer for Video and Voice, building out a new team to enable Twilio to better support global customers using Video and Voice in their solutions.

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

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