5 months ago
Remote, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Set and communicate long-term architectural vision across Twilio.
- Lead cross-product architecture reviews and standardize engineering practices.
- Drive foundational technical investments and solve complex technical challenges at platform and company-wide scale.
- Mentor and guide principal and staff engineers.
- Partner with product, engineering, and executive leaders on strategic direction and technical investments.
Requirements
- 15+ years of experience designing and scaling distributed systems and platforms.
- Ability to set technical vision and strategy at an enterprise or company-wide level.
- Expertise in system design, reliability, scalability, security, and cost optimization for large-scale architectures.
- Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and resolving highly complex, ambiguous technical problems.
- Proven record of mentoring senior engineering talent and elevating organizational standards.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication, influence, and leadership skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience with cloud-native, multi-region systems and architecture patterns is desired.
- Experience driving engineering standards across multiple business units or product lines is desired.
- Experience with observability, platform capabilities, and data architecture at scale is desired.
- Open-source project leadership or significant external technical impact is desired.
- Experience in high-growth SaaS, communications, or platform companies is desired.
Benefits
- Remote role based in India, limited to Karnataka, Telangana, Maharashtra, Delhi, and Tamil Nadu.
- Occasional travel may be required for project or team in-person meetings.
- Competitive pay, generous time off, parental and wellness leave, healthcare, retirement savings program, and location-dependent benefits.
- Volunteering and donation support.
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About Twilio
Twilio builds a cloud customer-engagement platform centered on programmable communications APIs for SMS, voice, WhatsApp, email, and verification, plus Segment CDP and the Flex contact center. It sells usage-based and subscription SaaS to developers and enterprises to embed messaging, calling, authentication, and data-driven marketing into apps. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, Twilio is a public company listed on the NYSE.