Senior Software Engineer
About The Position
Join the Voice & Video Postflight team as Twilio’s next Senior Software Engineer. About the job The role sits in the Twilio Voice Organization, Postflight Team. The team is responsible for managing the distributed systems and APIs responsible for Twilio Call lifecycle. This position is needed to build and evolve next-generation distributed systems that continue to empower our customers through high-performance APIs. You will be tasked with solving the complex challenges inherent in supporting the massive scale of Twilio Voice, ensuring our infrastructure remains robust as we expand our capabilities. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will focus on the intersection of large-scale API development and advanced data systems. You will work on designing and implementing low-latency, highly scalable architectures that leverage modern database technologies to provide customers with seamless access to large-scale data.
Requirements
- A Master’s or Bachelor's degree and 5 + years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on backend or infrastructure systems or equivalent combination of years of experience.
- Expertise in Distributed Systems: A deep understanding of consistency models, partition tolerance, and the challenges of scaling stateful services.
- Core Languages: Proficiency in Java, Spring, Dropwizard and a strong grasp of building RESTful APIs at scale.
- Database Fundamentals: Practical experience working with and tuning PostgreSQL, Aurora or similar relational databases.
- Cloud Infrastructure: Familiarity with deploying and managing large-scale services on AWS or GCP.
- Operational Excellence: Comfortable operating in an agile environment with a "you build it, you run it" mentality.
Nice To Haves
- OLAP & Big Data: Experience with ClickHouse or other column-oriented databases for high-performance analytical queries.
- Infrastructure as a code: Familiarity with tools such as Terraform, Harness for managing systems
- Data Pipelines: Prior exposure to technologies like Kafka or Spark for moving and processing data between distributed systems.
Responsibilities
- Architect and implement next-generation distributed systems capable of handling the immense throughput and concurrency requirements of Twilio Voice.
- Design low-latency, high-scale APIs that empower customers with real-time access to their data and communications infrastructure.
- Optimize and manage distributed database environments, ensuring high availability and performance across high-volume data stores.
- Own the full development lifecycle, from initial system design and prototyping to the continuous operation of 24x7 production services.
- Collaborate across engineering teams to solve "hard" distributed systems problems, ensuring our API layer is both resilient and developer-friendly.
Benefits
- Working at Twilio offers many benefits, including competitive pay, generous time off, ample parental and wellness leave, healthcare, a retirement savings program, and much more. Offerings vary by location.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
