# Software Engineer

**Company:** [Twilio](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/twilio)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $139k – $204k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Go, Java, C#, C++, Rust, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, MySQL, aws aurora, Kafka, AWS, GCP, Azure
**Posted:** 2026-07-31

> Software Engineer building and scaling highly available distributed systems for Twilio SendGrid's email platform, focusing on backend services, security, customer insights, and new product features. Requires 3+ years experience with Go or similar languages, strong ownership, and collaboration skills.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Ship reliable features, at scale, that deliver the most value to your customers. Partner with engineering and product to understand customers’ challenges, see opportunities, craft solutions, and lead the team to deliver the right value.
- Perform thorough and thoughtful code reviews to help maintain a high standard of code quality.
- Identify key system metrics and ensure adequate monitoring coverage for new and existing data storage and analytical services.
- Be creative, take your own initiative, and solve some of our most challenging problems.

## Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in your craft with demonstrated skill progression.
- Proficiency with Go or similar typed programming languages (Java, C#, C++, Rust, etc).
- Ability to implement reliable, maintainable components.
- Automation-minded; experience automating processes and administrative tasks.
- A highly effective collaborator, you work with your team and help drive team towards common goals.
- Self-driven; take complete ownership of your tasks and champion efforts to get your tasks to completion.
- Degree in Computer Science or similar work experience.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with Docker, and/or Kubernetes, or other containerization technologies.
- Experience with Terraform or similar configuration management tools.
- Experience with MySQL or AWS Aurora database systems.
- Experience with Kafka or other distributed logging systems.
- Experience with AWS or other cloud infrastructure providers (GCP, Azure).

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