Staff Data Engineer, Twilio
Messaging Data Platform
Cloud communications software
Open for applications
Cloud communications software
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To enable innovators across every industry - from emerging leaders to the world’s largest organisations - to reinvent how companies engage with their customers.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of Java development experience
- 5+ years of experience with Big Data processing tools and frameworks such as Apache Spark, SparkSQL
- Experience with Lakehouse technologies, such as Apache Hudi, Apache Iceberg, Databricks Delta Lake
- Experience in building AI/ML pipelines
- Deep technical understanding of ETL tools, low-latency data stores, multiple data warehouses and data catalogs
- Familiarity with data testing and verification tooling and best practices
- Experience with cloud services (AWS preferred, Google, Azure etc.)
- Proficient in working with Key-Value, Streaming, and Search Database technologies, including AWS DynamoDB, Apache Kafka, and ElasticSearch
- Readiness to participate in the on-call rotation
Desirable
- Demonstrated technical breadth and depth as evidenced by papers, code, and/or presentations
- Exposure to service-oriented architectures, microservices and REST APIs
- Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience
What the job involves
- This position is needed to build and maintain highly scalable, reliable, and efficient data pipelines that will empower both inbound and outbound messaging stacks, not to mention other internal engineering solutions, with its data insights interfaces for real-time decision-making
- Oversee the design, construction, testing, and maintenance of advanced, scalable data architectures and pipelines
- Drive the development of innovative data solutions that meet complex business requirements
- Create and enforce best practices for data architecture, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance
- Provide architectural guidance and mentorship to junior engineers
- Tackle the most challenging technical issues and provide advanced troubleshooting support
- Collaborate with senior leadership to align data engineering strategies with organizational goals
- Participate in long-term planning for data infrastructure and analytics initiatives
- Lead cross-functional projects, ensuring timely delivery and alignment with business objectives
- Coordinate with product managers, analysts, and other stakeholders to define project requirements and scope
- Continuously monitor and enhance the performance of data systems and pipelines
Our take
Traditionally, it has been difficult for businesses to establish communications systems in-house. Twilio was founded from frustration with this expensive and cumbersome process, providing easy-to-use APIs to let businesses send and receive telephone and text communications.
From these beginnings, the company has expanded through acquisitions and product development to provide a suite of services around market data and customer engagement. It is now a market leader in this space, and has developed a customer base of more than 150,000 businesses including enterprise brands such as Deliveroo, Duolingo and Toyota.
With that said, aggressive expansion and lack of maturity in some of its products has impacted the company's efficiency, and like many of its peers it has been forced to restructure heavily to remain competitive. Coming out of this restructuring, the company will focus on profitability, streamlining decision making and R&D to put itself in good stead for future success.
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jul 2015
$130m
SERIES E
Jun 2013
$70m
SERIES D
Total funding: $250.7m
Company benefits
- Generous annual time off in all countries
- Comprehensive health programs
- Programs to help our employees plan for their retirement needs
- Generous maternity, paternity, and adoption leaves, as well as family medical care leave
- Build and present a Twilio app to earn your Twilio track jacket and receive $30 per month for e-books for continued learning and education
- Variety of snacks, drinks, and catered meals in each of our locations
- Work from home opportunities
Company values
- We are Builders: We love hard problems and believe in the indomitable power of people's ability to create a better world through ingenuity and resourcefulness. We reject the “can’t be done” and believe bold ideas and fearless iteration can resolve the most challenging problems for our customers and the world they operate in
- We are Owners: We take accountability and see things through. We take the long view, sweat the details, and think about how our work makes Twilio better every day. We recognize that we and others do our best work when we feel both empowered and accountable for outcomes
- We are Curious: We see ourselves as works in progress. We know that we don’t have all the answers, humbly seek the truth, and strive to get better every day. As individuals, as a company, and in our products, we seek continual progress over perfection and acknowledge shortcomings as a matter of fact. Progress comes not from avoiding mistakes or hard truths, but in learning from them
- We are Positrons: A positron is a positively charged electron. We are genuinely excited to serve and help others. We believe that positive energy is contagious and caring is critical. We seek to be bright spots for the people around us in every interaction, and we stand up and work for what we believe is good and right for our customers, our company, our communities, and the world at large
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Khozema Shipchandler
(CEO, not founder)Has been at the company since 2018, beginning as CFO then working as COO, President of Communications then CEO. Prior to this, spent 20 years at GE, ultimately as CCO of GE Digital.
People progressing
Joined as a Business Development Representative and promoted to Team Lead Account Representative after 2 years. After four more promotions, Gilmore now works as Senior Manager of Strategic Accounts.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Twilio
- Building diverse teams: We thrive when we welcome a diversity of identities, experiences, and perspectives to the team. We know that building diverse teams requires us to dismantle barriers and address the opportunity gap, and we are driving programs to do just that.
- Creating equitable experiences: Building more diverse teams is only part of the equation. It is equally important that we promote equity within our workplace as well
- Cultivating inclusive environments: Every team member plays a role in fostering an environment that is psychologically safe and inclusive. This is a significant responsibility for our managers and leaders, who hold influence and power. Therefore, we are driving educational and engagement opportunities to activate inclusive leadership behaviors throughout the organization
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