Backend Engineer, Go & Cloud (L3) – Remote

Twilio Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Paid sick time

Paid personal time off

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Twilio is hiring a remote Software Engineer (L3) for Email with 4+ years of backend experience. You will build and operate massive-scale services in Go, Java, or Python, modernize backend systems, and drive reliability across AWS and Azure.

You will own code quality, participate in rigorous reviews, and contribute to observability, tracing, and infrastructure as code. This role offers a remote-first environment with travel as needed and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating resilient backend services at scale.
• Practical experience using AI-assisted development tools to accelerate code generation, automate testing, and streamline debugging workflows.
• Strong production experience writing clean, idiomatic, and highly concurrent Go (Golang), Java or Python.
• Solid experience deploying and managing production workloads in cloud environments (AWS core services and Azure equivalents).
• Proficiency with Terraform for provision-level automation.
• Strong understanding of distributed datastores, caching layers, and asynchronous event streaming (Kafka or similar).
• Solid CS fundamentals, data structures, and building self-healing cloud architectures.

Responsibilities

• Architect and ship reliable, high-velocity features that handle critical traffic with low end-to-end latency; collaborate with product management and technical leadership to decompose requirements into milestones.
• Drive rigorous code reviews and maintainable patterns in our Go codebase with strong testing standards (unit, integration, component).
• Manage and enhance cloud configurations across AWS and Azure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Ensure deep observability coverage with metrics, alerts, and distributed tracing across core data pipelines.
• Advocate for a clean architectural foundation; identify technical debt, bottlenecks, and SPOFs and balance delivery with refactoring.
• Mentor and lead junior engineers, guide technical sprint planning, and share expertise across distributed engineering nodes.

Job description

Twilio is hiring a remote Software Engineer (L3) for Email with 4+ years of backend experience. You will build and operate massive-scale services in Go, Java, or Python, modernize backend systems, and drive reliability across AWS and Azure.

You will own code quality, participate in rigorous reviews, and contribute to observability, tracing, and infrastructure as code. This role offers a remote-first environment with travel as needed and comprehensive benefits.