Senior Data Engineer (L3)

Twilio; United States; Remote; USD 126,000 - 158,000; Full time

Job summary

Join an innovative company that is reshaping the future of communications as a Senior Data Engineer. In this remote role, you will build and scale the next generation of data platforms, processing billions of events to enhance customer experiences. Collaborate with talented engineers to create high-performance systems and tackle real-world data challenges. This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact while working in a vibrant, inclusive environment that values diverse experiences. If you are passionate about data engineering and ready to take your career to the next level, we want to hear from you!

Benefits

Competitive pay

Generous time off

Parental leave

Healthcare

Retirement savings program

Qualifications

• 5+ years in backend or data engineering roles.
• Strong programming skills in Scala or Java.
• Experience with Apache Spark and ETL pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain scalable data pipelines using Spark and cloud services.
• Improve performance of real-time and batch data processing systems.
• Collaborate across teams to deliver high-impact capabilities.

Skills

Scala

Java

Apache Spark

ETL/ELT pipelines

AWS

CI/CD

Data governance (GDPR, CCPA)

High-scale event processing

Distributed systems

Collaboration and communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Apache Kafka

Parquet

Delta Lake

Trino

Flink

Snowflake

Job description

At Twilio, we’re shaping the future of communications, all from the comfort of our homes. We deliver innovative solutions tohundreds of thousands of businesses and empower millions of developers worldwide to craft personalized customer experiences.

Our dedication to remote-first work , and strong culture of connection and global inclusion means that no matter your location, you’re part of a vibrant team with diverse experiences making a global impact each day. As we continue to revolutionize how the world interacts, we’re acquiring new skills and experiences that make work feel truly rewarding. Your career at Twilio is in your hands.

See yourself at Twilio

Join the team as Twilio’s next Senior Data Engineer at the Segment Data Platform Team.

About the job

Twilio's Segment product powers modern data infrastructure that helps businesses collect, unify, and activate customer data at scale. Every day, we process billions of events in real time to enable personalized, data-driven customer experiences.

We're looking for a Senior Data Engineer to help build and scale the next generation of our data platform. You'll work on systems that handle high-throughput data ingestion, processing, and enrichment - serving as the backbone for our customer data platform (CDP).

If you're excited about building high-performance systems, solving real-world data challenges, and making a measurable impact for customers, we’d love to hear from you.

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Responsibilities

In this role, you’ll:

• Build and maintain scalable data pipelines using Spark, Scala, and cloud-native services.
• Improve the performance and reliability of our real-time and batch data processing systems.
• Contribute to platform features that support key customer-facing products such as Identity resolution, audience segmentation and real-time personalization.
• Work closely with Staff and Principal Engineers to execute on architectural decisions and implementation plans.
• Collaborate across product and engineering teams to deliver high-impact, customer-facing capabilities.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code that meets operational and compliance standards.
• Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, and incident response efforts to improve system quality and resiliency

Qualifications

Twilio values diverse experiences from all kinds of industries, and we encourage everyone who meets the required qualifications to apply. If your career is just starting or hasn't followed a traditional path, don't let that stop you from considering Twilio. We are always looking for people who will bring something new to the table!

Required:

• 5+ years of industry experience in backend or data engineering roles.
• Strong programming skills in Scala, Java, or a similar language.
• Solid experience with Apache Spark or other distributed data processing frameworks.
• Working knowledge of batch and stream processing architectures.
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines in production.
• Familiarity with AWS and tools like Parquet, Delta Lake, or Kafka.
• Comfortable operating in a CI/CD environment with infrastructure-as-code and observability tools.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.
• Experience with Trino, Flink, or Snowflake.
• Familiarity with GDPR, CCPA, or other data governance requirements.
• Experience with high-scale event processing or identity resolution.
• Exposure to multi-region, fault-tolerantdistributed systems

Location

This role will be remote, but is not eligible to be hired in San Francisco, CA, Oakland, CA, San Jose, CA, or the surrounding areas.

Travel

We prioritize connection and opportunities to build relationships with our customers and each other. For this role, you may be required to travel occasionally to participate in project or team in-person meetings.

What We Offer

Working at Twilio offers many benefits, including competitive pay, generous time off, ample parental and wellness leave, healthcare, a retirement savings program, and much more. Offerings vary by location.

Compensation

*Please note this role is open to candidates outside of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Washington D.C., and Washington State. The information below is provided for candidates hired in those locations only.

The estimated pay ranges for this role are as follows:

• Based in Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Vermont or Washington D.C. : $126,000.00 - $157,500.00.
• Based in New York, New Jersey, Washington State, or California (outside of the San Francisco Bay area): $133,400.00 - $166,700.00
• Based in the San Francisco Bay area, California: $148,200.00 - $185,200.00.
• This role may be eligible to participate in Twilio’s equity plan and corporate bonus plan. All roles are generally eligible for the following benefits: health care insurance, 401(k) retirement account, paid sick time, paid personal time off, paid parental leave.

The successful candidate’s starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location.

Applications for this role are intended to be accepted until May 30th, 2025, but may change based on business needs.

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