Software Development EngineerActive

The opportunity

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.

What you'll do

  • Be an owner: Design and implement real-time services with high throughput and: low latency requirements, verify, deploy and operationalize them

  • Wear the customer's shoes: Work closely with stakeholders to understand customer needs and, devise and deliver, simple, robust and scalable solutions

  • Write it down: Be comfortable expressing thoughts and ideas as detailed prose and use it as an effective means to collaborate with leads, architects and cross functional teams

  • Be bold: Embrace the challenge of scaling a complex distributed platform with: points of presence globally, each one concerned with high availability, high reliability, high throughput, low latency, and media fidelity

  • Draw the owl: Figure out novel ways of solving customer problems for the Voice channel

  • Minimum 2+ years of hands-on experience in a large scale, distributed: applications environment on JVM based technologies

What they're looking for

  • Experience building RESTful services, API design and event-driven architectures (Kafka, SQS)
  • Understanding of CI/CD pipelines
  • Hands on experience with cloud infrastructures such as AWS, GCP, OpenStack or Azure
  • Excellent written communication skills: essential for effective AI prompting and for creating clear technical documentation (with or without AI assistance)