Twilio
About this role
The most senior individual contributor engineering role in today's list. Twilio describes L6 as its senior most technical level, setting architectural direction across multiple products and domains rather than owning one system. The work is defining long term technical vision, establishing architectural guardrails so distributed systems across the company stay coherent, and taking on the ambiguous problems nobody else has been able to close. You would also mentor principal and staff engineers, which means the influence is organisational even though it is not a management role. Twilio asks for 15+ years designing and scaling distributed systems, plus a demonstrated record of setting technical strategy at company wide level. It is remote within five Indian states with occasional travel.
Who this is for
What the posting asks for:
- 15+ years of experience designing and scaling distributed systems and platforms.
- A demonstrated ability to set technical vision and strategy at enterprise or company wide level.
- Expertise in system design, reliability, scalability, security and cost optimisation for large scale architectures.
- Experience leading cross functional initiatives and resolving highly complex, ambiguous technical problems.
- A proven record of mentoring senior engineering talent and raising organisational standards.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication, influence and leadership skills.
- A bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Counts as a bonus:
- Cloud native, multi region systems and architecture patterns.
- A history of driving engineering standards across multiple business units or product lines.
- Experience with observability, platform capabilities and data architecture at scale.
- Open source project leadership or significant external technical impact.
- Prior experience at a high growth SaaS, communications or platform company.
The day to day: setting and communicating long term architectural vision, leading cross product architecture reviews, standardising engineering practices, driving foundational technical investments, solving the hardest platform wide problems, mentoring principal and staff engineers, and partnering with product, engineering and executive leaders on strategic direction.
Experience: the posting states 15+ years explicitly. This is genuinely a senior role and the number is not padding.
Location and travel: remote within India, restricted to Karnataka, Telangana, Maharashtra, Delhi and Tamil Nadu. Occasional travel for project or team meetings.
Who should apply: a principal or staff engineer with well over a decade of distributed systems work who wants architecture scope across an entire company and does not want to move into management to get it. If you are earlier in your career, the other two Twilio roles in today's list sit far lower.
- 15+ years of experience designing and scaling distributed systems and platforms.
- A demonstrated ability to set technical vision and strategy at enterprise or company wide level.
- Expertise in system design, reliability, scalability, security and cost optimisation for large scale architectures.
- Experience leading cross functional initiatives and resolving highly complex, ambiguous technical problems.
- A proven record of mentoring senior engineering talent and raising organisational standards.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication, influence and leadership skills.
- A bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Counts as a bonus:
- Cloud native, multi region systems and architecture patterns.
- A history of driving engineering standards across multiple business units or product lines.
- Experience with observability, platform capabilities and data architecture at scale.
- Open source project leadership or significant external technical impact.
- Prior experience at a high growth SaaS, communications or platform company.
The day to day: setting and communicating long term architectural vision, leading cross product architecture reviews, standardising engineering practices, driving foundational technical investments, solving the hardest platform wide problems, mentoring principal and staff engineers, and partnering with product, engineering and executive leaders on strategic direction.
Experience: the posting states 15+ years explicitly. This is genuinely a senior role and the number is not padding.
Location and travel: remote within India, restricted to Karnataka, Telangana, Maharashtra, Delhi and Tamil Nadu. Occasional travel for project or team meetings.
Who should apply: a principal or staff engineer with well over a decade of distributed systems work who wants architecture scope across an entire company and does not want to move into management to get it. If you are earlier in your career, the other two Twilio roles in today's list sit far lower.
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