Principal Engineer (L5)

Own the technical north star and deliver robust, highly composable routing experiences for the core Data platform and pipelines at Twilio Segment.

Design and pioneer always-available, fault-tolerant distributed systems in cloud environments, using past system failures to design out-of-the-box resilience.

Lead through technical influence, masterfully guiding high-stakes design decisions and articulating the precise trade-offs between cost, performance, and reliability to both engineers and executives.

Actively prototype and experiment, bringing an inquisitive mindset to the platform by identifying where emerging AI technologies and LLMs can solve systemic data processing…

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Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.

Mastery of high-level service design, with a proven ability to model complex interfaces and internals in a properly modular, composable, and extensible way.

Expert programming experience in Go or similar concurrent, object-oriented languages, with a sharp eye for performance bottlenecks.