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This position is needed to fulfill the critical role of a Software Engineer within Twilio Sendgrid, to be both hands-on in creating, deploying and managing highly available, very large scale distributed systems. Our systems processed 12 billion emails on Black Friday 2025 and we continue to scale! You will be a key contributor in one or more of these areas - Redesigning backend services to improve scalability, strengthening service security to keep up with changing threats. Delivering solutions that enhance the customer journey and developing new product offerings that provide actionable insights into the health of customers’ email programs.
Job Responsibility
Build and operate your team's services in a distributed production environment used by millions of customers across the globe
Collaborate routinely with other team members as well as members of the wider organization to tackle complex problems in distributed computing
Help, guide, mentor and influence more junior members of the team in their career
Communicate effectively to executives, to your peers, and internally among your team
Constantly look for areas of improvement in systems and optimize. Be an advocate for balancing tech debt and feature development
Requirements
8+ years of relevant experience building highly available, scalable, fault tolerant and maintainable distributed systems to help deliver mission critical applications
Strong experience with Golang, Java, or similar technologies
Demonstrated track record in service ownership
Operational excellence focussed mindset: Understands value of monitoring with metrics and alerting. Knows how to build resilient systems that are maintainable for years to come
Excellent written and spoken communication skills. Ability to articulate and present vision to both technical and non technical stakeholders
Strong technical and leadership chops - Led technical decisions for your team and influenced technical decisions across your functional domains on large scale projects. Led initiatives/projects that enforce operational reliability factors such as monitoring, performance and capacity planning, security, and disaster response
Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
Nice to have
Experience delivering software using Containers/Kubernetes
Experience with Kafka data pipelining
Experience with MySQL or AWS Aurora database systems
Understanding of cloud technologies and experience in at least one cloud platform: AWS, GCP, or Azure