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Join the team as our next Senior Engineer – designing and implementing Segment Entities.

Who we are & why we’re hiring

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About the job

This position is needed to design and implement a new product enhancement: Segment Entities.

As a Senior Distributed Systems Engineer on the Twilio Segment Entities team, you’ll build systems that unlock customer data in new and industry-leading ways. You will collaborate across major product areas of Segment Customer Data Platform (CDP) and Twilio Engage to lead engineering on highly anticipated features built on top of modern data warehouses. To be successful, you will design, implement, and operate new large scale distributed systems while acting as a multiplier to the greater business unit helping support key strategic engineering initiatives.

We iterate quickly on these products and features and learn new things daily — all while writing quality code. We work closely with product and design and solve some of the toughest engineering problems to unlock new possibilities for our customers. If you get excited by building products with high customer impact — this is the place for you.

Responsibilities

In this role, you’ll:

• Design and lead the delivery of new exciting product areas

• Prototype and build highly performant solutions that unlock differentiated CDP capabilities at scale

• Collaborate with peers, design and product cross functional partners, and internal stakeholders to turn business goals into achievable technical roadmaps

• Drive operational excellence, maintaining robust uptime and enabling continuous delivery

• Set a high standard for data quality, consistency, and compliance

• Be an empathetic leader by mentoring and supporting teammates

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 make 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:

• 3+ years of experience writing production-grade code in a modern programming language

• Strong background in distributed data processing, software engineering of data services and/or data stores

• Experience with relational and non-relational data stores at enterprise scale

• Exposure to architectural design patterns of high-scale systems and experience navigating and understanding large-scale software architectures

• Well-versed in concurrent programming

• Solid grasp of Linux systems and networking concepts

• Experience maintaining and operating always-on cloud services

• Experience taking challenging projects across the finish line, from gathering requirements to deploying and debugging systems in production

• Experience interfacing with stakeholders and translating customer requirements into software solutions; motivated and driven to deliver customer impact

• Comfortable asking questions and taking initiative to solve problems in a rapidly growing company, where it is often necessary to “draw the owl”

• Demonstrated commitment to seeking diverse viewpoints and acting with intention to create an inclusive team environment

• Excellent written and verbal communications skills

Desired:

• Experience and familiarity with data warehouses and the ecosystem

• Experience with Golang

• Experience managing AWS infrastructure

• Track record of open source contributions