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TwilioTwilioUnited States

Staff Software Engineer - Email

Twilio is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to build and operate highly available, scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems for their email platform. This role involves collaborating with other teams, mentoring junior engineers, and optimizing systems.

171k – 214k
Remote8+ YOEBackend Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

In this role, you’ll:

  • Build and operate your team's services in a distributed production environment used by millions of customers across the globe.
  • Collaborate routinely with other team members as well as members of the wider organization to tackle complex problems in distributed computing.
  • Help, guide, mentor and influence more junior members of the team in their career.
  • Communicate effectively to executives, to your peers, and internally among your team.
  • Constantly look for areas of improvement in systems and optimize. Be an advocate for balancing tech debt and feature development

Qualifications

Required:

  • 8+ years of relevant experience building highly available, scalable, fault tolerant and maintainable distributed systems to help deliver mission critical applications.
  • Strong experience with Golang, Java, or similar technologies
  • Demonstrated track record in service ownership
  • Operational excellence focussed mindset: Understands value of monitoring with metrics and alerting. Knows how to build resilient systems that are maintainable for years to come.
  • Excellent written and spoken communication skills. Ability to articulate and present vision to both technical and non technical stakeholders.
  • Strong technical and leadership chops - Led technical decisions for your team and influenced technical decisions across your functional domains on large scale projects. Led initiatives/projects that enforce operational reliability factors such as monitoring, performance and capacity planning, security, and disaster response.
  • Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience

Desired:

  • Experience delivering software using Containers/Kubernetes.
  • Experience with Kafka data pipelining.
  • Experience with MySQL or AWS Aurora database systems
  • Understanding of cloud technologies and experience in at least one cloud platform: AWS, GCP, or Azure.

Compensation

The estimated pay ranges for this role are as follows:

$171,120.00 to $213,900.00

Skills

GoJavaKubernetesKafkaMySQLAws AuroraAWSGCPAzure

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