Description
Join Twilio as a Software Architect (L6), a senior-most technical leader responsible for defining and driving architectural vision, strategy, and alignment across multiple products and domains at company scale.
As a Software Architect, you will set long-term technical vision, establish architectural guardrails, and ensure coherence across distributed systems and platforms. You will drive cross-organizational initiatives, solve complex and ambiguous technical challenges, and elevate the technical standard for Twilio company-wide.
Responsibilities:
- Set and communicate long-term architectural vision, aligning teams and leadership across Twilio.
- Lead cross-product architecture reviews, standardize engineering practices, and drive foundational technical investments.
- Solve the most complex, ambiguous technical challenges at platform and company-wide scale.
- Mentor and guide principal and staff engineers, fostering a culture of engineering excellence and continuous improvement.
- Partner closely with product, engineering, and executive leaders to shape strategic direction and technical investments.
Qualifications:
- 15+ years of experience designing and scaling distributed systems and platforms.
- Demonstrated ability to set technical vision and strategy at an enterprise or company-wide level.
- Expertise in system design, reliability, scalability, security, and cost optimization for large-scale architectures.
- Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and resolving highly complex, ambiguous technical problems.
- Proven record of mentoring senior engineering talent and elevating organizational standards.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication, influence, and leadership skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience).
Desired skills:
- Experience in cloud-native, multi-region systems and architecture patterns.
- History of driving adoption of engineering standards across multiple business units or product lines.
- Experience with observability, platform capabilities, and data architecture at scale.
- Open-source project leadership or significant external technical impact.
- Prior experience in high-growth SaaS, communications, or platform companies.
Location: This role will be remote, and based in India (Karnataka, Telangana, Maharashtra, Delhi, Tamilnadu).
Travel: You may be required to travel occasionally to participate in project or team in-person meetings.
What We Offer: 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.