Staff Software Engineer

🕒 July 17

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $171.1k - $251.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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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 architecture and long-term technical roadmap, transitioning legacy systems into a modern, distributed microservices architecture that supports global scale. • Lead by example in using AI coding assistants to automate boilerplate, generate exhaustive test suites, and perform rapid prototyping. • Drive technical excellence across multiple teams, making critical architectural decisions that balance rapid feature innovation with world-class reliability and security. • Partner with Product Managers to translate complex global telecommunications regulations and customer needs into elegant, developer-first APIs and application workflows. • Mentor and uplift senior and staff engineers. Foster a culture of technical curiosity, ownership, and continuous learning. • Identify and mitigate technical risks early and lead the team through complex production incidents with a focus on long-term remediation. • Communicate complex technical strategies to both executive leadership and engineering teams through high-quality design documents, RFCs, and presentations.

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years of experience designing and developing highly available, high scale, secure, mission-critical cloud native enterprise distributed systems. • Expert Proficiency in Java or Go, with deep knowledge of AWS ecosystems (Lambda, EKS, DynamoDB, Kafka). • Architectural Mastery: Deep experience with cloud-native infrastructure (AWS preferred), microservices patterns, and designing "five-nines" (99.999%) resilient systems. • AI-Native Workflow: Demonstrated experience using AI tools to significantly accelerate software delivery. • API Excellence: A track record of building and maintaining high-volume public-facing APIs that focus on exceptional developer experience. • Data Savvy: Experience with high-throughput data processing and storage solutions (SQL/NoSQL, Redis, Kafka, or Spark). • Infrastructure as Code: Proficiency with Kubernetes, Terraform, and modern CI/CD paradigms. • Leadership: Proven ability to influence technical strategy across multiple teams and organizational boundaries without direct authority.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive pay • Generous time off • Ample parental and wellness leave • Healthcare • Retirement savings program • Equity plan • Corporate bonus plan