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Software Engineer L3
Remote - US
Sponsorship not specified$139k-$173kDetected 5 days ago
JavaGoDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentData StructuresCode ReviewSQLDynamoDBAWSAzureCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesTerraformKafkaAgileLeadershipCommunicationMentoring
About the role
- As we continue to revolutionize how the world interacts, we're acquiring new skills and experiences that make work feel truly rewarding.
- We use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help make our hiring process efficient.
Responsibilities
- Partner closely with product management and technical leadership to break down complex system requirements into manageable, iterative milestones.
- BE AN OWNER (CODE QUALITY): Drive rigorous code reviews and push for maintainable patterns in our Go codebase, ensuring high testing standards (unit, integration, and component testing) are executed across the team.
- MENTOR AND LEAD: Foster a collaborative environment by mentoring junior engineers, leading technical sprint planning, and sharing expertise across distributed engineering nodes.
- Additionally, we empower employees to build positive change in their communities by supporting their volunteering and donation efforts.
Requirements
- Twilio values diverse experiences from all kinds of industries, and we encourage everyone who meets the required qualifications to apply.
- Modern Development Workflow: Practical experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools (such as Claude Code) to accelerate code generation, automate testing, and streamline debugging workflows.
- Language Proficiency: Strong, hands-on production experience writing clean, idiomatic, and highly concurrent Go (Golang), Java or Python.
- Infrastructure as Code: Proficiency with Terraform for provision-level automation and maintaining environment parity.
- Familiarity with database migration pathways (e.g., transitioning traditional on-prem/relational datastores to managed instances like AWS Aurora ).
- Experience implementing OpenTelemetry or distributed tracing systems across decoupled microservice platforms.
- Additionally, Twilio participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law.
- Twilio values diverse experiences from all kinds of industries, and we encourage everyone who meets the required qualifications to apply. If your career is just starting or hasn't followed a traditional path, don't let that stop you from considering Twilio. We are always looking for people who will bring something new to the table!
- Required:
- Cloud Infrastructure: Solid experience deploying and managing production workloads in cloud environments-ideally with deep exposure to AWS core services (such as EC2, S3, Aurora, or DynamoDB) AND Microsoft Azure equivalents (such as Virtual Machines, Blob Storage, Azure SQL, or Cosmos DB).
- Distributed Systems: Strong theoretical and practical understanding of distributed datastores, caching layers, and asynchronous event streaming (e.g., Kafka or similar queuing ecosystems).
- Systems Mindset: Strong foundational background in computer science fundamentals, data structures, and building self-healing cloud architectures.
- Desired:
- Prior experience managing high-throughput applications running inside containerized infrastructure ( Docker, Kubernetes ).
- Direct experience handling constraints related to network topology, proxy layers, or mail transfer agent (MTA) protocols.
Skills
- Your career at Twilio is in your hands.
- That said, every hiring decision is made by real Twilions!
- See yourself at Twilio
- Join the team as Twilio's next Software Engineer, Email Platform (L3)
- About the job
Compensation
- Please note the salary range information provided applies only to candidates residing in California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Washington D.C., and Washington State due to local requirements.
- Compensation for candidates in other locations will be discussed during the hiring process.
- The estimated pay ranges for this role are as follows:
- Based in Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Vermont or Washington D.C.: $138,700 - $173,400
- Based in New York, New Jersey, Washington State, or California (outside of the San Francisco Bay area): $146,800 - $183,600
- Based in the San Francisco Bay area, California: $163,100 - $203,900.
Benefits
- Working at Twilio offers many benefits, including competitive pay, generous time off, ample parental and wellness leave, healthcare, a retirement savings program, and much more.
- health care insurance, 401(k) retirement account, paid sick time, paid personal time off, paid parental leave.
Company info
- At Twilio, we're shaping the future of communications, all from the comfort of our homes. We deliver innovative solutions to hundreds of thousands of businesses and empower millions of developers worldwide to craft personalized customer experiences.
- Our dedication to remote-first work, and strong culture of connection and global inclusion means that no matter your location, you're part of a vibrant team with diverse experiences making a global impact each day. As we continue to revolutionize how the world interacts, we're acquiring new skills and experiences that make work feel truly rewarding. Your career at Twilio is in your hands.
- We use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help make our hiring process efficient. That said, every hiring decision is made by real Twilions!
- This position is a critical engineering role within Twilio SendGrid, requiring a hands-on engineer capable of developing, deploying, and managing highly available, massive-scale distributed systems.
- Our systems regularly process more than 12 billion emails during peak events like Black Friday, and our throughput requirements continue to scale rapidly.
- As an L3 engineer, you will act as a key driver of execution within our core services.
- You will be heavily involved in modernizing our backend systems, optimizing our extensive Go-based microservices, and contributing to the design and reliability of our dual-cloud infrastructure span across Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure.
- At Twilio, we're shaping the future of communications, all from the comfort of our homes.
- We deliver innovative solutions to hundreds of thousands of businesses and empower millions of developers worldwide to craft personalized customer experiences.
- Our dedication to remote-first work, and strong culture of connection and global inclusion means that no matter your location, you're part of a vibrant team with diverse experiences making a global impact each day.
Equal opportunity
- Twilio is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
- equal opportunity employer.
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