# Software Engineer-Platform Engineering

**Company:** [Twilio](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/twilio)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $139k – $204k/yr
**Experience:** 4+ years
**Skills:** Kubernetes, AWS, microsoft azure, Terraform, Go, shell, yaml, argo cd, harness, Docker, Kafka, OpenTelemetry, GitOps, capi, EKS
**Posted:** 2026-08-04

> Build and operate resilient, large-scale platform services across AWS and Azure, managing Kubernetes clusters, infrastructure automation, deployment orchestration, and observability. The role requires 4+ years of software engineering experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, Go, and distributed systems.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate services and automations to manage Kubernetes clusters at scale.
- Partner with product management and technical leadership to break down complex system requirements into iterative milestones.
- Drive rigorous code reviews and maintainable coding patterns.
- Ensure high testing standards across unit, integration, and component testing.
- Manage and enhance cloud configurations across AWS and Azure using Terraform.
- Standardize metrics, alerts, and distributed tracing across core data pipelines.
- Identify technical debt, system bottlenecks, and single points of failure while balancing feature delivery with platform refactoring.
- Mentor junior engineers, lead technical sprint planning, and share expertise across distributed engineering teams.

## Requirements
- 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.
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools, or a strong desire to learn.
- Hands-on experience implementing GitOps workflows with Argo CD 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 AWS or equivalent Azure services.
- Understanding of container networking, including VPC/VNet, pod IPAM, and CNI plugins.
- Proficiency with Terraform for infrastructure automation and maintaining environment parity.
- Understanding of distributed datastores, caching layers, and asynchronous event streaming such as Kafka.
- Strong computer science fundamentals, including data structures and self-healing cloud architectures.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience managing high-throughput applications in Docker and Kubernetes environments.
- Familiarity with canary and blue/green deployment strategies.
- Experience with OPA/Gatekeeper or similar policy-as-code enforcement in Kubernetes.
- Experience implementing OpenTelemetry or distributed tracing across decoupled microservice platforms.
- Exposure to network topology, proxy layers, or mail transfer agent protocol constraints.
- Multi-cloud migration or operations experience.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Estimated annual pay ranges:
  - Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Vermont, or Washington, D.C.: **$138,700–$173,400**
  - New York, New Jersey, Washington State, or California outside the San Francisco Bay area: **$146,800–$183,600**
  - San Francisco Bay area, California: **$163,100–$203,900**
- May be eligible for equity and a corporate bonus plan.
- Benefits generally include health insurance, a 401(k) retirement account, paid sick time, paid personal time off, paid parental leave, wellness leave, and other benefits.

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