Remote Principal Engineer

Description:

• The Principal Engineer position at Twilio involves creating high-quality solutions to complex engineering problems and shaping the future of Customer Data Platforms.
• The role focuses on designing and building storage and compute services to help businesses unlock customer insights and make better decisions efficiently.
• Responsibilities include designing and building a Profiles Data Lake, building scalable APIs, optimizing distributed systems, collaborating with engineering teams, mentoring other engineers, and participating in an on-call rotation.
• The position requires 8+ years of experience in writing production-grade code, expertise in designing fault-tolerant distributed systems, proficiency in programming languages like Go, Java, or Scala, experience with cloud infrastructure, container orchestration frameworks, CI/CD development, architectural patterns of high-scale web applications, modern data stack, team leadership, and effective communication skills.
• The role is remote and based in India.

Requirements:

• 8+ 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.
• 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 application (e.g., well-designed APIs, high volume data pipelines, efficient algorithms).
• Domain expertise in Modern Data stack with experience in developing cloud-based data solution components and architecture covering data ingestion, data processing and data storage.
• Have a track record of successfully leading teams, large projects, or owned and built an important, complex system end to end.
• Ability to influence and build effective working relationships with all levels of the organization.
• Are passionate about enabling other developers through your leadership and driving teams to efficient decisions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Benefits:

• Competitive pay, generous time-off, ample parental and wellness leave, healthcare, retirement savings program, and more.
• Remote work opportunity based in India.
• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology and shape the future of Customer Data Platforms.
• Supportive and inclusive work environment that values diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Chance to contribute to building positive change in communities through volunteering and donation efforts.