Senior Cloud Software Engineer

🕒 April 23

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Twilio

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5001 - 10000 employees

🔌 API

🤝 B2B

API • B2B

Twilio is a leading provider of cloud communications services that enables developers to build innovative communication solutions. Founded in 2008, Twilio has democratized access to communication channels such as voice, text, chat, video, and email through easy-to-use APIs. With headquarters in San Francisco and a global presence, Twilio empowers organizations of all sizes to engage effectively with their customers by integrating these communication capabilities into their applications.

📋 Description

• Lead the execution end-to-end: Design and lead the implementation of scalable, high-availability cloud infrastructure, moving beyond feature work to drive long-term platform strategy while championing Twilio’s "progress over perfection" mindset to deliver continuous, high-impact shipments. • Operational Excellence: Own the reliability of services handling billions of weekly requests, setting the standard for operational best practices and incident response. • Infrastructure Strategy: Drive the evolution of our Infrastructure as Code (IaC) patterns using Terraform, ensuring modularity, security, and reusability across the organization. Always aim for a self -service approach such that it keeps the team’s TOIL at minimum. • Continuous optimization: Continuously looks for optimizations in our pipelines/releases/deliveries that balance rapid deployment with rigorous safety checks. • Technical Mentorship and Reviews: Actively mentor L1 and L2 engineers as well as help with code reviews, design docs, and pair programming to foster a culture of technical excellence. • Cross-Functional Influence: Collaborate with Cross teams, Product and Engineering leadership to align technical roadmap, debt reduction and new feature deliveries. • Continuous Innovation: Be an owner and continuously research and prototype to optimise Twilio’s API infrastructure to provide best in class service to the customers

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience in Cloud, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), with deep proficiency in Python, Java, Go or another other language of choice. • Architectural Depth: Proven track record of designing and deploying complex AWS cloud-native solutions (e.g., CloudFront, Multitenancies, DNS, Caching strategies, WAF, Lambda, S3, developing hosting solutions, etc) at scale. • IaC Expert: Advanced experience with Terraform, including writing custom providers or managing state at scale across multiple environments. • System Reliability: Deep understanding of SLIs, SLOs, Golden signals, Error Budgets and establishing monitoring strategies; in depth experience using Datadog, Grafana, or Athena to drive data-informed engineering decisions. • Strong background in microservices architecture, specifically regarding traffic routing, rate limiting, and service discovery. • Demonstrated ability to lead technical projects from conception to completion, navigating trade-offs and communicating complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders. • Desired: Experience implementing security-at-scale, including WAF management, DDoS mitigation, and Zero Trust architectures. • Platform Engineering previous experience, passion for building "Internal Developer Platforms" that abstract infrastructure complexity for product teams. • A proven track record of contributing to the cloud-native or networking ecosystem, also has contributions to public Terraform providers or similar open-source initiatives.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive pay • Generous time off • Ample parental and wellness leave • Healthcare • Retirement savings program • Many more benefits vary by location