About the company
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. Our dedication to remote-first work, and strong culture of connection and global inclusion means that no matter your location, you’re part of a vibrant team with diverse experiences making a global impact each day.
Responsibilities
- 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
Requirements
- Minimum 2+ years of hands-on experience in a large scale, distributed applications environment on JVM based technologies
- 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)
- Proven ability to critically evaluate AI-generated code for correctness, security, performance, and maintainability
- Strong Java fundamentals with the ability to architect, review, and debug code whether written by you, teammates, or AI agents
- Demonstrated proficiency working with AI coding assistants (Claude, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar) - you should be able to describe your workflows and show examples
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related engineering field
- Strong Computer Science fundamentals not limited to data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems
- Able to work well in a team setting and both highly motivated and motivating