Twilio
Principal Engineer (L5)
Remote Engineering role with clear candidate location fit.
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Seniority signalLead
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
India
Role overview
Principal Engineer (L5)
Requirements and responsibilities
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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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