Remote Software Engineer II - APIs & Cloud

Twilio; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 124,000 - 156,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity plan

Health care

401(k) retirement

Paid sick time

Paid personal time off

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Twilio is a remote-first company seeking a Software Engineer (L2) for the Messaging API. You will help build and maintain scalable communications infrastructure used by thousands of customers globally. The role emphasizes designing, developing, deploying, and operating software with a growth mindset.

You’ll join a collaborative team, participate in on-call rotations, and contribute to clear documentation. The position offers competitive pay, equity opportunities, and benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferable in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
• Experience with Go or Java
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to participate in an on-call rotation
• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, including containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
• Polyglot developer with the ability to work across multiple programming languages and frameworks as needed.
• Experience with Temporal

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain software
• Work with a small and collaborative team, whiteboarding ideas, building backend services and APIs
• Perform thorough and thoughtful code reviews to help maintain a high standard of code quality
• Support production operations, building, releasing and assisting with team on-call
• Craft clear and concise documentation

Skills

Go

Java

Communication

On-call

Temporal

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Twilio is a remote-first company seeking a Software Engineer (L2) for the Messaging API. You will help build and maintain scalable communications infrastructure used by thousands of customers globally. The role emphasizes designing, developing, deploying, and operating software with a growth mindset.

You’ll join a collaborative team, participate in on-call rotations, and contribute to clear documentation. The position offers competitive pay, equity opportunities, and benefits.