Software Engineer (L3)

About the Job

Join Twilio's Messaging team to design, build, and scale large-scale distributed messaging and media systems supporting core functionalities.

Responsibilities

• Design and build large-scale distributed messaging and media systems with a focus on reliability, availability, scalability and performance.
• Work closely with stakeholders and product teams to gather business requirements and translate them into effective technical solutions.
• Own your code end-to-end from development to deployment and provide operational support through on-call rotations.
• Take ownership of troubleshooting and resolving operational issues, with opportunities to enhance existing troubleshooting processes and tools.
• Participate in the refinement of the team's ticket backlog, estimating work and follow Agile ceremonies.
• Mentor early in career engineers and contribute to a culture of continuous learning and improvement.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree in CS or related field or equivalent working experience.
• 5+ years of related software development experience shipping multiple products / services.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages including Java, Scala, C, C++ and advanced concepts like asynchronous programming, multi-threading etc.
• Experience in AWS cloud solutions, Kubernetes/EKS, CI/CD pipelines like Buildkite & containerization frameworks like Docker.
• Experience with asynchronous communication patterns like Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ etc.
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases, SQL queries, query optimizations and ETL tools.
• Experience designing and implementing large scale solutions.
• Experience working in distributed and concurrent systems.
• Experience with Testing & Automation.
• Proficiency in debugging production infrastructure and services.
• Curiosity and interest in learning new programming languages and frameworks.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Working in agile teams or startup environments with strong customer focus. Commitment for engineering practices that ensure safe and fast paced releases of services.
• Demonstrated organizational agility, cross-team collaboration, commitment for results, and excellent written and verbal communications.

Desired:

• On-call experience debugging large scale distributed systems.
• Experience with Devops infrastructure, specifically IaC tools like Terraform and ArgoCD.
• A strong plus if you have prior experience with MMS/SMS/RCS messaging protocols.

Compensation

Estimated pay ranges (USD):

• Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Vermont or Washington D.C.: $138,700 - $173,400
• New York, New Jersey, Washington State, or California (outside SF Bay area): $146,800 - $183,600
• San Francisco Bay area, California: $163,100 - $203,900

Eligible for equity plan, corporate bonus, health care insurance, 401(k), paid time off.