Remote Principal Data Platform Engineer – Scalable Systems

Twilio Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 41,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Retirement savings

Parental leave

Job summary

Twilio Inc. seeks a Principal Engineer (L5) for the Segment Data platform. You’ll build and scale high-throughput ingestion and data processing systems, leading architecture and delivery across cloud-native environments.

You will guide decisions on cost, performance, and reliability while collaborating with Product Managers and Architects to translate strategy into actionable plans, mentoring engineers across distributed teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Hands-on experience with high-scale messaging/streaming systems and processing engines (several thousand events/sec).
• Excellent abilities in high level service design – modular, composable interfaces and internals.
• Expert programming experience in Go or similar object-oriented languages.
• Demonstrated experience identifying, prototyping, and deploying GenAI/LLM solutions to solve real-world engineering or data processing challenges.
• Technical depth in distributed systems, high-scale ingestion, and cloud-native architecture.
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and operational excellence skills.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver robust, high-scale routing experiences for the Data platform/ pipelines team.
• Architect and operate always-available, complex distributed systems in cloud environments.
• Guide technical decisions, articulating trade-offs between cost, performance, and reliability.
• Translate complex technical strategies into actionable plans for diverse stakeholders, including Product Managers and Architects

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Cloud-native

High-scale ingestion

GenAI/LLM solutions

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Datadog

Grafana

Prometheus

AWS

Job description

Twilio Inc. seeks a Principal Engineer (L5) for the Segment Data platform. You’ll build and scale high-throughput ingestion and data processing systems, leading architecture and delivery across cloud-native environments.

You will guide decisions on cost, performance, and reliability while collaborating with Product Managers and Architects to translate strategy into actionable plans, mentoring engineers across distributed teams.