Software Engineer - Video
Who we are At Twilio, we’re shaping the future of communications, all from the comfort of our homes. We deliver innovative solutions to hundreds of thousands of businesses and empower millions of developers worldwide to craft personalized customer experiences.
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Who we are At Twilio, we’re shaping the future of communications, all from the comfort of our homes. We deliver innovative solutions to hundreds of thousands of businesses and empower millions of developers worldwide to craft personalized customer experiences. Responsibilities: - Be an owner: Design and implement real-time services with high throughput and low latency requirements, verify, deploy and operationalize them - Wear the customer's shoes: Work closely with stakeholders to understand customer needs and, devise and deliver, simple, robust and scalable solutions - Write it down: Be comfortable expressing thoughts and ideas as detailed prose and use it as an effective means to collaborate with leads, architects and cross functional teams - Be bold: Embrace the challenge of scaling a complex distributed platform with points of presence globally, each one concerned with high availability, high reliability, high throughput, low latency, and media fidelity - Draw the owl: Figure out novel ways of solving customer problems for the Voice channel - Minimum 2-3+ years of hands-on experience in a large scale, distributed applications environment on JVM based technologies Requirements: - Be an owner: Design and implement real-time services with high throughput and low latency requirements, verify, deploy and operationalize them - Wear the customer's shoes: Work closely with stakeholders to understand customer needs and, devise and deliver, simple, robust and scalable solutions - Write it down: Be comfortable expressing thoughts and ideas as detailed prose and use it as an effective means to collaborate with leads, architects and cross functional teams - Be bold: Embrace the challenge of scaling a complex distributed platform with points of presence globally, each one concerned with high availability, high reliability, high throughput, low latency, and media fidelity - Draw the owl: Figure out novel ways of solving customer problems for the Voice channel - Minimum 2-3+ years of hands-on experience in a large scale, distributed applications environment on JVM based technologies Benefits: - Based in Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Vermont or Washington D.C. : $114,600 - $143,300 - Based in New York, New Jersey, Washington State, or California (outside of the San Francisco Bay area): $121,400 - $151,700 - Based in the San Francisco Bay area, California: $134,800 - $168,500. - 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. Company context: Twilio is the customer engagement platform for messaging, voice, video, and customer-data orchestration.
Day-to-day expectations
Twilio lists these responsibilities for the Software Engineer - Video role.
- Be an owner: Design and implement real-time services with high throughput and low latency requirements, verify, deploy and operationalize them
- Wear the customer's shoes: Work closely with stakeholders to understand customer needs and, devise and deliver, simple, robust and scalable solutions
- Write it down: Be comfortable expressing thoughts and ideas as detailed prose and use it as an effective means to collaborate with leads, architects and cross functional teams
- Be bold: Embrace the challenge of scaling a complex distributed platform with points of presence globally, each one concerned with high availability, high reliability, high throughput, low latency, and media fidelity
- Draw the owl: Figure out novel ways of solving customer problems for the Voice channel
- Minimum 2-3+ years of hands-on experience in a large scale, distributed applications environment on JVM based technologies
What a strong candidate brings
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- Be an owner: Design and implement real-time services with high throughput and low latency requirements, verify, deploy and operationalize them
- Wear the customer's shoes: Work closely with stakeholders to understand customer needs and, devise and deliver, simple, robust and scalable solutions
- Write it down: Be comfortable expressing thoughts and ideas as detailed prose and use it as an effective means to collaborate with leads, architects and cross functional teams
- Be bold: Embrace the challenge of scaling a complex distributed platform with points of presence globally, each one concerned with high availability, high reliability, high throughput, low latency, and media fidelity
- Draw the owl: Figure out novel ways of solving customer problems for the Voice channel
- Minimum 2-3+ years of hands-on experience in a large scale, distributed applications environment on JVM based technologies
Why people would want this job
Twilio published these compensation, benefits, or working-context details with the role.
- Based in Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Vermont or Washington D.C. : $114,600 - $143,300
- Based in New York, New Jersey, Washington State, or California (outside of the San Francisco Bay area): $121,400 - $151,700
- Based in the San Francisco Bay area, California: $134,800 - $168,500.
- 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.
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