Staff Software Engineer – Email

Twilio

Software Engineer creating and managing highly available distributed systems at Twilio. Collaborating globally to enhance customer experience through innovative solutions.

Posted 6/1/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $171,120 - $213,900 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKafkaKubernetesMySQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build and operate your team's services in a distributed production environment used by millions of customers across the globe.
Collaborate routinely with other team members as well as members of the wider organization to tackle complex problems in distributed computing.
Help, guide, mentor and influence more junior members of the team in their career.
Communicate effectively to executives, to your peers, and internally among your team.
Constantly look for areas of improvement in systems and optimize. Be an advocate for balancing tech debt and feature development.

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of relevant experience building highly available, scalable, fault tolerant and maintainable distributed systems to help deliver mission critical applications.
Strong experience with Golang, Java, or similar technologies
Demonstrated track record in service ownership
Operational excellence focussed mindset: Understands value of monitoring with metrics and alerting. Knows how to build resilient systems that are maintainable for years to come.
Excellent written and spoken communication skills. Ability to articulate and present vision to both technical and non technical stakeholders.
Strong technical and leadership chops - Led technical decisions for your team and influenced technical decisions across your functional domains on large scale projects. Led initiatives/projects that enforce operational reliability factors such as monitoring, performance and capacity planning, security, and disaster response.
Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
Experience delivering software using Containers/Kubernetes.
Experience with Kafka data pipelining.
Experience with MySQL or AWS Aurora database systems.
Understanding of cloud technologies and experience in at least one cloud platform: AWS, GCP, or Azure.

Benefits

Comp & perks

competitive salary
remote-first work culture
opportunities for personal and professional growth

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Hard Skills & Tools

GolangJavadistributed systemsservice ownershipmonitoringKubernetesKafkaMySQLAWS Auroracloud technologies

Soft Skills

communicationmentoringleadershipcollaborationproblem-solvinginfluencingorganizational skillsarticulationpresentation skillsadvocacy