Platform Engineer: Scale Backend & Kubernetes

Socket.dev; United States; On-site; USD 139,000 - 204,000; Full time

Job summary

Twilio seeks a Software Engineer, Platform Engineering (L3) to design, build, and operate highly available backend services at scale. You will work on dual-cloud infrastructure spanning AWS and Azure, using Kubernetes beyond managed services, and automate infrastructure with Terraform.

You will help ensure reliability, run production code, and contribute to the health of our platforms while mentoring teammates and leading technical initiatives in distributed engineering nodes.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating resilient backend services at scale using Kubernetes.
• Experience with CAPI, EKS and managing zero-downtime Kubernetes cluster upgrades, including node draining, API deprecations, and PodDisruptionBudgets.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate services and automations to manage Kubernetes clusters at scale.
• Drive rigorous code reviews and ensure high testing standards across the team and platform.
• Manage cloud configurations across AWS and Azure using Terraform and improve observability with metrics, alerts, and tracing.
• Advocate for a clean architectural foundation and proactively identify bottlenecks and SPOFs.
• Mentor and lead junior engineers, guiding technical sprint planning and knowledge sharing.

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

Go (Golang)

Shell

ArgoCD

CI/CD

Tools

EKS

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Canary deployments

Job description

Twilio seeks a Software Engineer, Platform Engineering (L3) to design, build, and operate highly available backend services at scale. You will work on dual-cloud infrastructure spanning AWS and Azure, using Kubernetes beyond managed services, and automate infrastructure with Terraform.

You will help ensure reliability, run production code, and contribute to the health of our platforms while mentoring teammates and leading technical initiatives in distributed engineering nodes.