Twilio

Software Development Engineer

Twilio
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3 hours ago
Remote, IrelandMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, verify, deploy, and operationalize high-throughput, low-latency real-time services.
  • Participate in requirements gathering, technical design, estimation, sprint planning, coding, testing, deployment, and on-call support.
  • Own, operate, and maintain services in a distributed production environment.
  • Collaborate with product managers, stakeholders, leads, architects, and cross-functional teams to deliver scalable customer solutions.
  • Scale globally distributed voice infrastructure for high availability, reliability, throughput, low latency, and media fidelity.
  • Evaluate AI-generated code for correctness, security, performance, and maintainability.

Requirements

  • At least 2 years of hands-on experience with large-scale distributed applications using JVM-based technologies.
  • Experience building RESTful services, designing APIs, and working with event-driven architectures such as Kafka and SQS.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS, GCP, OpenStack, or Azure.
  • Strong Java fundamentals and the ability to architect, review, and debug code.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and strong computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems.
  • Experience using AI coding assistants such as Claude, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar tools.
  • Excellent written communication and technical documentation skills.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related engineering field.
  • Ability to work effectively in a collaborative team setting.
  • Preferred experience includes on-call rotations, incident response, monitoring and alerting tools, scalable SQL/NoSQL databases and caching technologies, production backend systems, SIP, and Stir/Shaken.

Benefits

  • Remote role based in Ireland with occasional travel for project or team meetings and possible ad-hoc in-person gatherings.
  • Competitive pay, generous time off, parental and wellness leave, healthcare, and a retirement savings program, with offerings varying by location.
  • Support for employee volunteering and donation efforts.

Tech Stack

Apache KafkaAWSAzureDatadogGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaJavaOpenStackPrometheusSQL

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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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