Staff Software Engineer - P4 Job in Twilio

About the job This position is needed to create high-quality, modern solutions to complex engineering problems and help define the future of Customer Data Platforms. Our mission is to help businesses unlock customer insights and make better decisions faster and cheaper by creating a suite of industry-leading storage and compute services. In this role, you will be responsible for designing and building a suite of platforms and services that form the basis of a Customer Data Platform capable of handling billions of events in near-realtime You ll also be responsible for mentoring, sharing knowledge, and guiding the technical decisions of the team to set us up for long-term success, both as a product and as a team. More about the CDP products: https://segment.com/product/connections/functions https://segment.com/blog/introducing-functions https://segment.com/blog/use-functions-to-customize-your-data-pipeline https://segment.com/docs/connections/sources/about-cloud-sources https://segment.com/docs/connections/destinations Responsibilities In this role, you ll: Design and build the next generation of Platform Extensibility Platforms, process billions of events, and power various use cases across Twilio Data and Applications Build high-performance data pipelines using Go and Kafka Ship features that opt for high availability and throughput with eventual consistency General experience working with data systems or data pipelines Experience in architecting reliable distributed systems, with an emphasis on high-volume data management Support runtime for invoking untrusted code at the extremities of the pipeline Support the reliability and security of the integrations platform Build and optimize globally available and highly scalable distributed systems Participate in an on-call rotation to support our business-critical infrastructure Qualifications Not all applicants will have skills that match a job description exactly. Twilio values diverse experiences in other industries, and we encourage everyone who meets the required qualifications to apply. While having desired qualifications makes for a strong candidate, we encourage applicants with alternative experiences to also 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 7+ years experience writing production-grade code in a modern programming language. Strong theoretical fundamentals and hands-on experience designing and implementing highly available and performant fault-tolerant distributed systems. Experience programming in one or more of the following: Go, Java, Scala, or similar languages Well-versed in concurrent programming, along with a solid grasp of Linux systems and networking concepts. Experience operating large-scale, distributed systems on top of cloud infrastructure such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Compute Platform (GCP) Have hands-on experience with container orchestration frameworks (e.g. Kubernetes, EKS, ECS) Experience shipping services (products) following CI/CD development paradigm. Deep understanding of architectural patterns of high-scale web applications (e.g., well-designed APIs, high volume data pipelines, efficient algorithms) Domain expertise in the Modern Data stack with experience in developing cloud-based data solution components and architecture covering data ingestion, data processing and data storage Excellent written and verbal communication skills.