Description
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.
Join the team as Twilio's next Staff Software Engineer. This position is needed to harden, optimize, and scale the real-time event-aggregation services that power our Observability Insights/Analytics platform.
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer with solid Java expertise to help deliver a high-throughput stream-processing microservices (Kafka Streams / Flink) deployed on AWS EKS, tune ClickHouse for millisecond-latency writes, and embed observability that keeps incident minutes near zero.
You will design resilient, high-performance systems capable of processing >250K events/sec with p99 latencies under 200ms, while championing DevSecOps practices and mentoring junior engineers.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain high-performance Java microservices using Spring Boot, capable of ingesting >250K events/sec with p99
- Tune ClickHouse for millisecond-latency writes
- Embed observability that keeps incident minutes near zero
- Champion DevSecOps practices and mentor junior engineers
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of professional Java development experience with mastery of high-performance and low-latency design patterns
- Production experience with Kafka Streams, Flink, or comparable stream-processing frameworks for building real-time data pipelines
- Hands-on ClickHouse (or columnar database) performance tuning and SQL optimization expertise
- Proven success operating AWS-hosted microservices of moderate to complex scope with solid Linux, Docker, and Kubernetes knowledge
- Strong observability mindset including metrics, tracing, alerting, and post-incident analysis capabilities
- Excellent communication skills and a bias toward collaborative problem-solving in cross-functional team environments
Desired:
- Experience migrating single-region services to multi-region active-active topologies for high availability
- Familiarity with data-privacy controls including PII tokenization and field-level encryption
- Previous work in telecom, real-time analytics, or compliance-sensitive domains
- Contributions to open-source Java or streaming projects demonstrating community engagement
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. Offerings vary by location.