Job Description

See yourself at Twilio.

Join the team as our next Software Engineer, Warehouse Activation.

Who We Are & Why We’re Hiring

Twilio powers real-time business communications and data solutions that help companies and developers worldwide build better applications and customer experiences.

Although we're headquartered in San Francisco, we have presence throughout South America, Europe, Asia and Australia. We're on a journey to becoming a globally anti-racist, anti-oppressive, anti-bias company that actively opposes racism and all forms of oppression and bias. At Twilio, we support diversity, equity & inclusion wherever we do business. We employ thousands of Twilions worldwide, and we're looking for more builders, creators, and visionaries to help fuel our growth momentum.

About The Job

As a Software Engineer in the Warehouse Activation group, you’ll build and scale systems that process 1B+ rows per month, helping our customers unlock value of our customer data platform (CDP). The team you will join will have a deep understanding of large distributed systems and data processing at scale. In addition, the systems you manage connect directly to customer Data Warehouses such as Snowflake and Databricks. In your role you will be responsible for understanding Data Warehouse APIs and how to best integrate with these systems at high scale.

We iterate quickly on these products and features and learn new things daily — all while writing quality code. We work closely with product and design and solve some of the toughest engineering problems to unlock new possibilities for our customers. If you get excited by building products with high customer impact — this is the place for you.

Responsibilities
In this role, you will:

• Contribute to the next generation of Warehouse Activation platform, process billions of events, and power various use cases for Twilio Segment customers. This encompasses working on stream data processing, storage, and other mission-critical systems
• Ship features that opt for high availability and throughput with eventual consistency
• Collaborate with engineering and product leads, as well as teams across Twilio Segment
• Support the reliability and security of the platform
• Build and optimize globally available and highly scalable distributed systems

Qualifications
Not all applicants will have skills that match a job description exactly. Twilio values diverse experiences in other industries, and we encourage everyone who meets the required qualifications to apply. While having “desired” qualifications make for a strong candidate, we encourage applicants with alternative experiences to also apply. If your career is just starting or hasn't followed a traditional path, don't let that stop you from considering Twilio. We are always looking for people who will bring something new to the table!
Required

• 3+ years of experience writing production-grade code in a modern programming language
• Strong theoretical fundamentals and hands-on experience or interest designing and implementing highly available and performant fault-tolerant distributed systems.
• Experience programming in one or more of the following: Go, Java, Scala, or similar languages
• Well-versed in concurrent programming, along with a solid grasp of Linux systems and networking concepts.
• Experience shipping services (products) following CI/CD development paradigm.
• Understanding of architectural patterns of high-scale web applications (e.g., well-designed APIs, high volume data pipelines, efficient algorithms)
• Have a track record of owning small projects and contributing to large projects, delivered iteratively.
• Strong written and verbal technical communication skills to convey complex technical concepts effectively.
• Comfortable asking questions and taking initiative to solve problems where it is often necessary to “draw the owl”

Location:

• This role will be remote and based in India.