Twilio

Staff, Software Engineer (L4)

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Remote, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design and deliver robust, high-scale routing systems for Twilio Segment’s data platform and pipelines team.
  • Build, operate, and optimize globally available distributed systems with high availability, throughput, reliability, and cost efficiency.
  • Develop messaging, streaming, ingestion, and data-processing systems handling several hundred thousand data points per second and petabytes of data.
  • Collaborate with engineering, product, application, and cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end customer outcomes.
  • Support platform reliability and security while shipping services through a CI/CD development process.
  • Act as a technical lead as needed and mentor engineers on technical architecture and design.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
  • At least 8 years of experience writing production-grade code in a modern programming language.
  • Hands-on experience with high-scale messaging or streaming systems and processing engines handling thousands to more than one million events per second.
  • Strong theoretical and practical experience designing highly available, performant, and fault-tolerant distributed systems.
  • Programming experience in Go, Java, Scala, or similar languages.
  • Knowledge of concurrent programming, Linux systems, networking concepts, cloud infrastructure, containers, and distributed systems.
  • Experience with AWS or GCP, Kafka or AWS Kinesis, Spark or Flink, and Kubernetes, EKS, or ECS.
  • Experience with data ingestion, processing, and storage architecture is preferred.
  • Track record of leading teams or large projects, or owning and delivering complex systems end to end, is preferred.
  • Strong written and verbal technical communication skills and the ability to take initiative are preferred.

Benefits

  • Remote-first work arrangement in Delhi, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Telangana, or Tamil Nadu, with occasional in-person meetings or travel.
  • Competitive pay, generous time off, parental and wellness leave, healthcare, retirement savings, and other location-dependent benefits.
  • Support for employee volunteering and donation efforts.

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BackendData Engineering
Twilio

About Twilio

5,001-10,000 employees

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.

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