Staff Software Engineer – L4

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Staff Backend Engineer setting technical direction for Twilio Flex’s scalable TaskRouter backend. Designing resilient AWS services for Twilio’s customer engagement platform.

Responsibilities:

  • Design, develop, and maintain backend services powering Twilio Flex’s high-scale TaskRouter system
  • Set and own technical direction for high-scale, business-critical backend services running on AWS
  • Lead large distributed-systems changes involving scalability, data architecture, fault isolation, and migration strategy
  • Improve availability and resilience for Tier 0 systems while balancing reliability, cost, and delivery speed
  • Partner with engineering, platform, and product teams to align designs and unblock dependencies
  • Raise engineering standards through design reviews, code reviews, and mentorship
  • Drive operational excellence through observability, gamedays, incident response, and permanent fixes
  • Influence roadmap priorities and represent the team’s technical position across the organization

Requirements:

  • 8+ years of experience writing production-grade backend code in a modern programming language such as Java, Golang, Python, or Scala
  • Strong fundamentals and experience building fault-tolerant distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and database design
  • Experience working with AWS cloud-based infrastructure
  • Experience designing and building high-scale, low-latency APIs
  • Experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL, or DynamoDB
  • Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills for complex distributed applications
  • Experience shipping services following the CI/CD development paradigm
  • Effective communication skills and ability to collaborate in a fast-paced team environment
  • Comfort with ambiguity and problem-solving in a rapidly growing company

Benefits:

  • Competitive pay
  • Generous time off
  • Parental leave
  • Wellness leave
  • Healthcare
  • Retirement savings program
  • Volunteering and donation support