Twilio · 2 days ago
Staff, Software Engineer (L4)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$171K/yr - $214K/yr
7+ years expTwilio is a company that shapes the future of communications, providing innovative solutions to businesses worldwide. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join their Stytch team, where the role involves designing and implementing backend systems for secure identity experiences, collaborating with leadership, and mentoring other engineers.
Enterprise SoftwareMessagingMobile AppsSMSSoftware
Responsibilities
Build and own backend product capabilities for Stytch’s identity platform on Twilio—shipping new API surfaces and core authentication flows, including agentic and non-human identity use cases
Design, implement, and maintain scalable, reliable distributed services, optimizing for security, latency, and developer experience
Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to set direction, translate customer needs into technical plans, and deliver high-impact roadmap features
Collaborate across Twilio and Stytch teams to align on architecture, integrate platform capabilities, and unblock cross-team initiatives
Operate with deep technical ownership: author design docs, drive key technical decisions, review code, and stay close to the systems you ship
Build in ambiguity—break down complex problems, make pragmatic tradeoffs, and adopt new technologies or strategies when they improve outcomes
Improve production quality and resilience through strong observability, incident response and remediation
Mentor and support other engineers through pairing, feedback, and knowledge-sharing, helping raise the team’s technical bar and culture
Qualification
Required
7+ years experience in designing, building and operating high-scale, mission critical cloud based production systems
Familiarity with a production-grade code base in a modern programming language, applying best practice coding standards and writing high quality code
Experience designing technical services and leading teams through implementation
Extensive experience with RESTful API design and development
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related industry experience
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Schedule: ability to work non-standard, on-call rotation weekend and holiday hours
Preferred
Familiarity with Go, Kubernetes, and DynamoDB
Experience building developer tools and/or internal platforms that improve velocity and reliability
Experience designing and building highly reliable back end systems
Builder at heart. Through a hobby or your profession, you are passionate about being hands on and seeing your work come to life
Benefits
Health care insurance
401(k) retirement account
Paid sick time
Paid personal time off
Paid parental leave
Company
Twilio
Twilio is a cloud communication company that enables users to use standard web languages to build voice, VoIP, and SMS apps via a web API.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$614.42MKey Investors
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Leadership Team
Khozema Shipchandler
Chief Executive Officer
Aidan Viggiano
Chief Financial Officer
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