Role overview

Software Engineer, (L2) CDP

Requirements and responsibilities

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Responsibilities

  • Design and build robust, scalable backend systems and APIs across Segment’s data platform.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with design, product, and other engineers to define solutions that balance usability, performance, and long-term architecture.
  • Communicate technical decisions clearly - articulating trade-offs, customer impact, and team alignment.
  • Troubleshoot and improve system reliability, debugging issues and refining operational tooling and processes.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation for our managed services

Qualifications

  • Experience programming in one or more of the following: Go, Java, Python, or similar languages
  • Experience operating large-scale, distributed systems on top of cloud infrastructure such as Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Have hands-on experience with container orchestration frameworks (e.g. Kubernetes, EKS, ECS)
  • Have experience with large scale async processing systems
  • Experience shipping services (products) following CI/CD development paradigm
  • Good grasp of software engineering and how to build a system in scalable and extensive manner;
  • Excellent 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”
  • Leverage best-in-class development productivity practices including AI tooling.

Qualifications

  • Building products or tools that are currently using A.I.
  • Experience working with event streaming technologies (Kafka, Pulsar, or similar).
  • Familiarity with database technologies like PostgreSQL and DynamoDB.
  • Exposure to observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog.
  • Experience working in a geographically distributed team.

Details

  • No mandatory travel is anticipated.
  • Based in Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Vermont or Washington D.C.
  • $116,960.00 to $146,200.00.
  • Based in New York, New Jersey, Washington State, or California (outside of the San Francisco Bay a
  • rea): $123,760.00 to $154,700.00).
  • Based in the San Francisco Bay area, California: $137,520.00 to $171,900.00).
  • This role may be eligible to participate in Twilio’s equity plan and corporate bonus plan. All roles are generally eligible for the following benefits: health care insurance, 401(k) retirement account, paid sick time, paid personal time off, paid parental leave.
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