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Principal Engineer (L5)

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  • Own and deliver robust, high-scale routing experiences for the Data platform/ pipelines team for Twilio Segment.
  • Architect and operate always-available, complex distributed systems in cloud environments.
  • Guide technical decisions, articulating trade-offs between cost, performance, and reliability.
  • Translate complex technical strategies into actionable plans for diverse stakeholders, including Product Managers and Architects
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
  • Hands-on experience with high-scale messaging/streaming systems and processing engines (several thousand events/sec).
  • Excellent abilities in high level service design -- modeling interfaces and internals in a properly modular, composable, and extensible way.
  • Expert programming experience in Go or similar object-oriented languages.
  • Demonstrated experience identifying, prototyping, and deploying GenAI/LLM solutions to solve real-world engineering or data processing challenges.
  • Technical depth in distributed systems, high-scale ingestion, and cloud-native architecture.
  • Excellent communication, problem-solving, and operational excellence skills.
  • Proficiency with datastores, distributed caching, and container technologies (Docker/Kubernetes).
  • Experience with modern CI/CD pipelines and observability tools (Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus).
  • Familiarity with AI/ML technologies.
  • Experience managing and operating AWS infrastructure
  • Experience working in a geographically distributed team.
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