Senior Software Engineer, Elixir

Telnyx

Senior Software Engineer building and maintaining APIs and systems at Telnyx. Collaborating with teams to improve engineering processes and resolve production issues.

Posted 5/28/2026full-timeSão Paulo • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CassandraConsulDockerElixirErlangJenkinsKafkaKubernetesPrometheusRabbitMQRedis

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and systems across Telnyx’s engineering teams.
Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.
Work with engineers across the company to build new features at large scale.
Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Have 6+ years of professional software development experience with a functional programming language (Elixir/Erlang is preferred).
Have experience working with relational databases at scale.
Have deep knowledge of microservice architecture patterns and anti-patterns.
Have experience with message queues like RabbitMQ and Kafka.
Understand the challenges inherent in concurrent and distributed programming.
Have experience with more exotic databases/key-value stores such as ETS, Mnesia, Cassandra and Redis.
Have familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, Consul, Jenkins, Prometheus, or RabbitMQ.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

ElixirErlangrelational databasesmicroservice architecturemessage queuesRabbitMQKafkaconcurrent programmingdistributed programmingkey-value stores

Soft Skills

debuggingcollaborationengineering standards improvementprocess improvement