# Software Architect (L6)

**Company**: Twilio
**Location**: Remote - India
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## 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.

## Skills

### Required
- distributed systems
- system design
- reliability
- scalability
- security
- cost optimization
- cloud-native systems
- architecture patterns
- observability
- platform capabilities
- data architecture

### Nice to have
- cloud-native
- multi-region systems
- engineering standards
- open-source project leadership
- high-growth SaaS
- communications
- platform companies

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