Software Engineer L2 - Cloud Infrastructure

Twilio

9h•$116,960 - $171,900•Remote

About The Position

This position is needed to evolve and maintain fundamental Compute infrastructure, collaborating with a passionate team to enhance the system capabilities. Key responsibilities include develop scalable cloud-native environments, VM orchestration, AWS-ASG Auto Scaling group of EC2 instances, hardened base AMIs, and secure container images while maintaining critical OS libraries. You'll implement solutions for providing robust legacy platform support and cutting-edge cloud-native technologies, all driven by automation and best practices. Join us in shaping the future of our Compute infrastructure.

Requirements

2+ years of experience in AWS Cloud infrastructure management. (preferably backend/infrastructure-focused like AMI, EC2, IAM policies/roles, etc.).
Strong ASG (Auto Scaling Groups) knowledge, to design, implement, and support scalable cloud-native environments.
Experience with hardened base AMIs and AL23.
Proficiency with one or more programming languages: like Java or Python (includes SW Arch patterns, clean code, debugging, etc)
Proficient in shell scripting to streamline repetitive tasks and enhance efficiency in operations.
Skills to work independently with multiple global teams, developing, configuring, deploying, and operating the global Twilio Infrastructure Platform, blending operational excellence with development best practices.
Knowledge of container-based application/services.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge on deployment tools and frameworks like infrastructure as a code and continuous deployment processes (ex: Github, Buildkite, Terraform-TFC, ArgoCD, Harness, Cloud network).
Operational experience in complex distributed systems, including experience with SLO/SLAs towards high availability and reliability goals, including tools like DataDog or Phometheus.
Exposure to File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) tools, specifically Falco, and awareness of compliance frameworks (PCI, SOX).
Knowledge in Kubernetes
Experience with Claude AI or similar.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with Tech Leaders, Architects and other Engineers to develop solutions for complex problems in distributed computing and infrastructure management.
Automate solutions for operational issues, such as monitoring, performance, planning, and disaster response.
Participate in an on-call rotation to support our business-critical infrastructure.
Ensure a high quality implementation by applying Infrastructure as Code industry standards.
Demonstrate effective communication by authoring and reviewing design documents, runbooks, and other service documentation, and keeping a good record of changes in the systems.
Apply Agile methodologies to continuously deliver value to the customers.
Act as point of contact for legacy/new Compute system components.