Staff Software Engineer

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Join the team as Twilio’s next Staff Software Engineer Message Orchestration & Callbacks team.

About the job

This position is needed to build and maintain a suite of mission critical services in our Message Orchestration & Callbacks team.

As a Staff Software Engineer in the Message Orchestration team you will be working with product managers architects and other engineers to deliver Messaging product features. Being on the critical path of one of the world's largest messaging platforms the team's primary focus is around building scalable reliable and low latency services.

Responsibilities

In this role you’ll:

• Design and develop scalable systems to support continuing increases in message volume and evolving requirements.

• Keep our services stable and performant while following a quality-first mindset. Support production operations building testing releasing and assisting with team on-call.

• Review code and offer improvements to practices and processes to elevate the team and broader organization.

• Contribute to feature ideas and betterments through tight cooperation inside and outside of your immediate team.

• Build trust and reliability in your products review performance against service level objectives address incidents and prioritize improvements.

Qualifications

Twilio values diverse experiences from all kinds of industries and we encourage everyone who meets the required qualifications to 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:

• 8+ years of experience in designing building maintaining and scaling backend services in statically compiled languages like Java or C#.

• Strong fundamental knowledge of software development and best practices for RESTful service implementation.

• Docker and containerisation in general. K8s experience would be ideal.

• Experience in building and operating distributed event driven systems.

• Strong understanding and experience with asynchronous programming.

• Strong oral and written communication skills: be prepared to frequently propose and discuss ideas and implementation details with your teammates as well as involving other stakeholders in Twilio - we’re one single team no one flies solo!

• Curious mindset - we’re not looking for someone with all the answers but rather someone who is prepared to grow with us. We have in-team knowledge sharings and allocated focus time for engineering excellence. We also have hub wide events like Tallinn Tech Forum and AWS workshops.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field or equivalent training fellowship or work experience.

Desired:

• Experience in Java specifically.

• Experience developing with AWS offerings - DynamoDB SQS EKS EC2 etc.

• Experience with technologies like Kafka and Terraform.

Location

This role will be remote and based in Ireland.

Travel

We prioritize connection and opportunities to build relationships with our customers and each other. For this role you may be required to travel occasionally to participate in project or team in-person meetings.

What We Offer

Working at Twilio offers many benefits including competitive pay generous time off ample parental and wellness leave healthcare a retirement savings program and much more. Offerings vary by location.