Principal Engineer

Twilio
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Communications, PR & CommunityExperience: 16+ yearsSkills: ["Java","Go","AWS","Kubernetes","Terraform","DynamoDB","Kafka","Lambda","EKS","Spark","SQL","NoSQL","GitHub Copilot","Anthropic Claude","LLMs","AI-driven development"]

Principal Engineer on Twilio’s Compliance Experiences team, shaping the technical strategy for a high-scale cloud-native platform handling millions of requests. Lead architecture toward a distributed microservices model, drive AI-native development workflows with LLMs to accelerate delivery, and ensure reliability, security, and regulatory alignment while mentoring engineers and collaborating with product teams.

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Principal Engineer

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Job Summary

Principal Engineer on Twilio’s Compliance Experiences team, shaping the technical strategy for a high-scale cloud-native platform handling millions of requests. Lead architecture toward a distributed microservices model, drive AI-native development workflows with LLMs to accelerate delivery, and ensure reliability, security, and regulatory alignment while mentoring engineers and collaborating with product teams.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Communications, PR & Community

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead the architecture and long-term technical roadmap, transitioning legacy systems into a modern, distributed microservices architecture that supports global scale.
  • •Incorporate AI-driven workflows to automate boilerplate, generate exhaustive test suites, and accelerate prototyping, measuring impact on team velocity.
  • •Drive technical excellence across multiple teams, making critical architectural decisions that balance feature velocity with reliability and security.
  • •Translate complex global telecommunications regulations and customer needs into elegant, developer-first APIs and workflows in partnership with Product Managers.
  • •Mentor and uplift senior engineers, fostering a culture of technical curiosity, ownership, and continuous learning while guiding teams to review and orchestrate AI-generated logic.
Travel: Low travel

Key Requirements

  • •16+ years of experience designing and developing highly available, high scale, secure, mission-critical cloud native enterprise distributed systems.
  • •Expert Proficiency in Java or Go, with deep knowledge of AWS ecosystems (Lambda, EKS, DynamoDB, Kafka).
  • •Architectural Mastery: Deep experience with cloud-native infrastructure (AWS preferred), microservices patterns, and designing five-nines (99.999%) resilient systems.
  • •AI-Native Workflow: Demonstrated experience using AI tools to accelerate software delivery, including discussing how you use LLMs for architectural brainstorming, debugging, and code synthesis.
  • •API Excellence: A track record of building and maintaining high-volume public-facing APIs that focus on exceptional developer experience.
Experience:16+ yearsCloudDistributed systemsMicroservicesAWSKubernetesTerraformJUnitKafkaDynamoDB
Skills:JavaGoAWSKubernetesTerraformDynamoDBKafkaLambdaEKSSparkSQLNoSQLGitHub CopilotAnthropic ClaudeLLMsAI-driven development
Languages:English
Tech Stack:JavaGoAWSLambdaEKSDynamoDBKafkaKubernetesTerraformCI/CDRedisSpark

Company Brief

Twilio
Provides cloud communications platforms and APIs enabling developers to add voice, messaging, video, and authentication features to applications. Serves enterprises and developers with programmable communications, engagement, and customer interaction tools.
Industry: API Platforms
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2008
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