2 months ago
Remote, United StatesMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$117k - $146k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate services and automations supporting Kubernetes clusters at scale under senior-engineer guidance.
- Translate well-scoped tasks into working code in collaboration with product management and technical leadership.
- Participate in code reviews and apply established coding, unit-testing, and integration-testing standards.
- Maintain AWS and Azure cloud configurations using Terraform-based infrastructure as code.
- Improve observability through metrics, alerts, and basic distributed tracing across core data pipelines.
- Identify technical debt, bugs, and small-scale system issues while developing clean architectural practices.
- Participate in sprint planning, seek mentorship, and share knowledge with peers.
Requirements
- 1-2+ years of professional software engineering experience, including exposure to building or operating backend services using Kubernetes.
- Basic Kubernetes knowledge covering deployments, pods, and services; deep production-scale cluster-upgrade experience is not required.
- Practical experience with, or strong desire to learn, AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code.
- Exposure to GitOps workflows such as ArgoCD and CI/CD pipelines such as Harness or an equivalent platform.
- Working knowledge of at least one of Shell, Terraform, YAML, or Go, with willingness to develop proficiency in the others.
- Some cloud infrastructure experience, ideally with AWS services such as EC2, S3, and EKS or Microsoft Azure equivalents such as Virtual Machines, Blob Storage, and AKS.
- Basic familiarity with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools.
- Foundational understanding of distributed datastores, caching layers, or asynchronous event streaming such as Kafka.
- Solid computer science fundamentals and data structures knowledge.
- Preferred exposure to Docker, advanced deployment strategies, OPA/Gatekeeper, OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, network topology, proxy layers, MTA protocols, distributed datastores, caching, event streaming, and multi-cloud environments.
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement, with occasional in-person team, off-site, customer, or project meetings.
- Healthcare insurance, 401(k) retirement savings, paid sick time, paid personal time off, paid parental leave, wellness leave, and volunteering and donation support.
- Role is not eligible for hiring in California, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, or Washington.
- Applications are intended to be accepted until October 31, 2026, subject to business needs.
Tech Stack
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.