# Staff Software Engineer - Email

**Company:** [Twilio](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/twilio)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $171k – $214k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Go, Java, Kubernetes, Kafka, MySQL, Aws Aurora, AWS, GCP, Azure
**Posted:** 2026-06-01

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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

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