# 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

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 Software Architect, (L6).

This position is needed to define and drive architectural vision, strategy, and alignment across multiple products and domains at company scale. As a senior-most technical leader, you'll set long-term technical vision, establish architectural guardrails, and ensure coherence across distributed systems and platforms.

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:

- 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

## Skills

### Required
- designing and scaling distributed systems and platforms
- setting technical vision and strategy at an enterprise or company-wide level
- system design, reliability, scalability, security, and cost optimization for large-scale architectures
- leading cross-functional initiatives and resolving highly complex, ambiguous technical problems
- mentoring senior engineering talent and elevating organizational standards

### Nice to have
- cloud-native, multi-region systems and architecture patterns
- driving adoption of engineering standards across multiple business units or product lines
- observability, platform capabilities, and data architecture at scale
- open-source project leadership or significant external technical impact
- high-growth SaaS, communications, or platform companies

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