2 months ago
Base Salary
$139k - $204k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate services and automations for managing Kubernetes clusters at scale.
- Partner with product management and technical leadership to break complex system requirements into iterative milestones.
- Drive code reviews, maintainable coding patterns, and rigorous unit, integration, and component testing.
- Manage and improve AWS and Azure cloud configurations using Terraform and maintain environment parity.
- Standardize metrics, alerts, and distributed tracing across core data pipelines and improve observability coverage.
- Identify technical debt, bottlenecks, single points of failure, and platform refactoring opportunities.
- Mentor junior engineers, lead technical sprint planning, and share expertise across distributed engineering teams.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of professional software engineering experience building and operating resilient backend services at scale using Kubernetes.
- Experience with CAPI, EKS, and zero-downtime Kubernetes cluster upgrades, including node draining, API deprecations, and PodDisruptionBudgets.
- Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, or a strong desire to learn them.
- Experience implementing GitOps workflows with ArgoCD and automated pipeline orchestration with Harness or an equivalent enterprise CI/CD platform.
- Strong hands-on experience with Shell, Terraform, YAML, and Go.
- Experience deploying and managing production workloads in cloud environments, ideally with AWS services such as EKS, EC2, and S3 or Microsoft Azure equivalents such as AKS, Virtual Machines, and Blob Storage.
- Understanding of container networking, including VPC/VNet, pod IPAM, and CNI plugins.
- Understanding of distributed datastores, caching layers, and asynchronous event streaming such as Kafka.
- Strong computer science fundamentals, data structures knowledge, and experience building self-healing cloud architectures.
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes, advanced deployment strategies such as canary and blue/green analysis, OPA/Gatekeeper, OpenTelemetry, network topology, proxy layers, MTA protocol constraints, or multi-cloud migration and operations is desired.
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement with occasional ad-hoc in-person team, off-site, customer, or project meetings.
- Healthcare insurance, retirement savings/401(k), paid sick time, paid personal time off, paid parental leave, wellness leave, and volunteering and donation support.
- Potential eligibility for equity and corporate bonus plans.
- Applications 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.