Senior Engineering Manager, Twilio

V&V Media

$207.2-274.2k

Salary is applicable to CO, DC, IL, MA, MD, MN, NJ, NY, VT rates only, is dependent on location and may vary on further locations

AWS

Java

C++

Rust

Senior and Expert level

Remote from US

More information about location

Cloud communications software

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Cloud communications software

1001+ employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceCommunicationInternet of ThingsMachine LearningCloud Computing

Be an early applicant

$207.2-274.2k

Salary is applicable to CO, DC, IL, MA, MD, MN, NJ, NY, VT rates only, is dependent on location and may vary on further locations

AWS

Java

C++

Rust

Senior and Expert level

Remote from US

More information about location

1001+ employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceCommunicationInternet of ThingsMachine LearningCloud Computing

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.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

5+ years of engineering management experience leading teams building distributed systems
Understanding of Voice/VoIP infrastructure and media handling challenges
Strong technical background with experience architecting and building backend services at scale, operating them with high reliability under strict SLOs
Deep understanding of systems design, microservice architecture, and cloud infrastructure
Experience managing complex technical tradeoffs between reliability, scalability, and feature development
Track record of successfully delivering critical infrastructure projects with significant technical complexity
Experience in improving developer velocity using AI tools
Strong knowledge of performance optimization, reliability engineering, and operational excellence
Excellent communication skills with ability to translate complex technical concepts across technical and non-technical audiences
Experience with at least one of: real-time communications systems, media processing, streaming technologies, or related fields

Desirable

Experience with SIP, RTP/RTCP or other communications protocols
Familiarity with media codecs, transcoding, packet loss concealment, and audio processing
Background in building low-latency, globally distributed systems
Experience with Rust, Java, C/C++, or other systems programming languages and platforms like Asterisk or gStreamer
Experience in building Voice AI products
Knowledge of cloud infrastructure on AWS or similar platforms
Prior experience in telecommunications or communications platforms

What the job involves

We're looking for an experienced, technically strong Engineering Manager to lead our Voice Media team. You'll drive the technical strategy for core media infrastructure that powers Twilio's Voice services at global scale
Your team will build robust systems processing billions of media streams while maintaining industry-leading reliability, quality, and performance. This is a highly technical leadership role requiring deep systems expertise and a passion for real-time communications technology
Lead a team of senior engineers developing Twilio's next-generation media processing stack
Drive technical architecture decisions for low-latency, high-throughput media systems
Collaborate with product, platform teams, and other engineering teams to define technical roadmaps
Establish engineering excellence through code quality standards, testing practices, and operational reliability
Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance on complex media processing challenges
Balance technical debt reduction with feature development while maintaining service reliability
Build and evolve systems handling real-time media processing at scale
Own service performance metrics, reliability targets, and continuous improvement initiatives
Partner with engineering leaders to align media platform capabilities with broader Voice strategy
Make key technology stack decisions that impact Twilio's media processing capabilities

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.

Although aggressive expansion and lack of maturity in some of its products in the past impacted the company's efficiency, a 2023 restructuring addressed these problems and allowed it to remain competitive. The company has since focussed on profitability, streamlining decision making and R&D to put itself in good stead for future success.

Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

35% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.9)

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 HQ

Financial District, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Khozema Shipchandler

(CEO)

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.

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