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Staff Software Engineer
Location
California
Posted
3 days ago
Salary
$171.1K - $251.6K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Staff Software Engineer
Twilio
• Lead the architecture and long-term technical roadmap, transitioning legacy systems into a modern, distributed microservices architecture that supports global scale. • Lead by example in using AI coding assistants to automate boilerplate, generate exhaustive test suites, and perform rapid prototyping. • Drive technical excellence across multiple teams, making critical architectural decisions that balance rapid feature innovation with world-class reliability and security. • Partner with Product Managers to translate complex global telecommunications regulations and customer needs into elegant, developer-first APIs and application workflows. • Mentor and uplift senior and staff engineers. Foster a culture of technical curiosity, ownership, and continuous learning. • Identify and mitigate technical risks early and lead the team through complex production incidents with a focus on long-term remediation. • Communicate complex technical strategies to both executive leadership and engineering teams through high-quality design documents, RFCs, and presentations.
Job Requirements
- 12+ years of experience designing and developing highly available, high scale, secure, mission-critical cloud native enterprise distributed systems.
- Expert Proficiency in Java or Go, with deep knowledge of AWS ecosystems (Lambda, EKS, DynamoDB, Kafka).
- Architectural Mastery: Deep experience with cloud-native infrastructure (AWS preferred), microservices patterns, and designing "five-nines" (99.999%) resilient systems.
- AI-Native Workflow: Demonstrated experience using AI tools to significantly accelerate software delivery.
- API Excellence: A track record of building and maintaining high-volume public-facing APIs that focus on exceptional developer experience.
- Data Savvy: Experience with high-throughput data processing and storage solutions (SQL/NoSQL, Redis, Kafka, or Spark).
- Infrastructure as Code: Proficiency with Kubernetes, Terraform, and modern CI/CD paradigms.
- Leadership: Proven ability to influence technical strategy across multiple teams and organizational boundaries without direct authority.
Benefits
- Competitive pay
- Generous time off
- Ample parental and wellness leave
- Healthcare
- Retirement savings program
- Equity plan
- Corporate bonus plan
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