Twilio
Principal Engineer
Remote (Worldwide)RemotePosted Today
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Job Description
Who we are 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 deve
Key Highlights
- DRAW THE OWL: Lead the architecture and long-term technical roadmap, transitioning legacy systems into a modern, distributed microservices architecture that supports global scale.
- BE AN OWNER: Drive technical excellence across multiple teams, making critical architectural decisions that balance rapid feature innovation with world-class reliability and security.
- WEAR THE CUSTOMER’S SHOES: Partner with Product Managers to translate complex global telecommunications regulations and customer needs into elegant, developer-first APIs and application workflows.
- EMPOWER OTHERS: Mentor and uplift senior and staff engineers. Foster a culture of technical curiosity, ownership, and continuous learning. Teach the team how to move from "writing code" to "reviewing and orchestrating AI-generated logic" without sacrificing security or quality.
- RUTHLESSLY PRIORITIZE: Identify and mitigate technical risks early, ranging from scalability bottlenecks to security vulnerabilities and lead the team through complex production incidents with a focus on long-term remediation.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- 16+ 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. You should be comfortable discussing how you use LLMs for architectural brainstorming, debugging, and code synthesis.
- 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.
Skills & Technologies
JavaGoAWSDynamoDBKafkaSQLNoSQLRedisKubernetesTerraformCI/CD
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Job Details
Employment Type
Full Time
Experience Level
Senior
Location
Remote (Worldwide)
Work Mode
Remote
Posted
Today