# Principal Software Engineer

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

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## Description

Join the team as Twilio's next Principal Software Engineer.

This position is needed to lead the planning, design, development, and testing of large-scale software systems and new product capabilities, including cloud and internet-facing services. You'll set technical direction, drive delivery using modern engineering practices, and ensure what we ship is secure, compliant, and production-ready.

Responsibilities:

- Lead architecture and system design for complex, distributed software systems; guide teams toward scalable, maintainable solutions.

- Design, implement, and review high-quality code for core services, APIs, platforms, and/or user-facing applications.

- Translate business goals into technical roadmaps, identify tradeoffs, and align stakeholders on solution direction.

- Improve system resiliency, latency, throughput, and cost efficiency; establish SLOs/SLAs and operational practices.

- Drive standards for coding, testing, CI/CD, observability, security, and documentation; champion automation and quality.

- Partner with engineering managers, staff engineers, and product leaders to coordinate delivery across multiple teams.

- Coach and mentor engineers at all levels; lead design reviews, incident postmortems, and technical deep dives.

- Identify technical risks early (security, scalability, compliance) and drive mitigation plans.

Qualifications:

- 12+ years of experience designing and developing highly-available, high-scale, secure, mission critical native cloud enterprise SaaS applications in Java, Go or Python.

- Knowledge of architectural patterns and archetypes for building mature services, especially for distributed and multi-regional deployments.

- Excellent abilities in high level service design - modeling interfaces and internals in a proper modular, composable, and extensible way.

- Experience with AWS, GCP or other public cloud infrastructure platforms. Multi-region deployment is a plus.

- Experience building distributed systems at scale based on microservices architecture.

- Extensive experience with REST API design and implementation.

- Experience working with data architecture such as Clickhouse, Lakehouse, Snowflake.

- Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases and caches.

- Familiarity with streaming systems such as Kafka, Flink, Spark.

- Experience with container technologies - Docker/Kubernetes.

- Experience implementing modern automated testing and CI/CD pipelines.

Salary Range: Competitive pay

Experience Level: Senior

Employment Type: Full-time

Workplace Type: Remote

Category: Engineering

Industry: Technology

Salary Currency: USD

Salary Period: Year

Required Skills:

- Java

- Go

- Python

- Cloud infrastructure

- Microservices architecture

- REST API design

- Data architecture

- SQL/NoSQL databases

- Caches

- Streaming systems

- Container technologies

Preferred Skills:

- None

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Go
- Python
- Cloud infrastructure
- Microservices architecture
- REST API design
- Data architecture
- SQL/NoSQL databases
- Caches
- Streaming systems
- Container technologies

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