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.
As a Software Engineer (L3) Email, you will play a critical role in developing, deploying, and managing highly available, massive-scale distributed systems within Twilio SendGrid. Your responsibilities will include architecting and shipping reliable, high-velocity features, driving rigorous code reviews, and optimizing extensive Go-based microservices.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and deploy highly available, massive-scale distributed systems
- Architect and ship reliable, high-velocity features that handle critical traffic with low end-to-end latency
- Partner closely with product management and technical leadership to break down complex system requirements into manageable, iterative milestones
- Drive rigorous code reviews and push for maintainable patterns in the Go codebase
- Manage and enhance cloud configurations across AWS and Azure environments utilizing Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
- Ensure deep observability coverage by standardizing metrics, alerts, and distributed tracing across core data pipelines
- Champion engineering health by advocating for a clean architectural foundation and identifying technical debt
- Mentor and lead junior engineers, leading technical sprint planning, and sharing expertise across distributed engineering nodes
Qualifications:
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating resilient backend services at scale
- Practical experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools to accelerate code generation, automate testing, and streamline debugging workflows
- Strong, hands-on production experience writing clean, idiomatic, and highly concurrent Go (Golang), Java or Python
- Solid experience deploying and managing production workloads in cloud environments, ideally with deep exposure to AWS core services and Microsoft Azure equivalents
- Proficiency with Terraform for provision-level automation and maintaining environment parity
- Strong theoretical and practical understanding of distributed datastores, caching layers, and asynchronous event streaming
- Systems mindset with a strong foundational background in computer science fundamentals, data structures, and building self-healing cloud architectures
Benefits:
- Competitive pay
- Generous time off
- Ample parental and wellness leave
- Healthcare
- Retirement savings program
- Much more
Compensation:
- Estimated pay ranges: $138,700 - $173,400 (Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Vermont, Washington D.C.)
- $146,800 - $183,600 (New York, New Jersey, Washington State, or California outside of the San Francisco Bay area)
- $163,100 - $203,900 (San Francisco Bay area, California)