Staff, Software Engineer - San Francisco, United States - Twilio
Description
**Staff, Software Engineer - Continuous Delivery**
at Twilio San Francisco, CA, United States **Because you belong at Twilio.**
**The Who, What, Why and Where**
Twilio is growing rapidly and Platform Engineering is growing with it. Our organization provides all Twilio engineers with compelling, continuously improving, cloud-scale development platformsfreeing our engineers to focus solely on their products and their customers. **We are focused on Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery at enterprise scale.**
The Continuous Delivery team is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to develop our software and infrastructure deployment systems to scale with Twilios growth. The continuous deployment systems are essential to developer efficiency as well as incident reduction. If you are deeply passionate about enabling Twilio engineers, and love solving sophisticated infrastructure problems with software, you are probably a great fit for our team.
Twilio is looking for a developer who lives and has experience developing and operating Platforms at enterprise scale.
**This role may be a good mutual match if:**
You are enthusiastic about developer platforms for continuous delivery of software and infrastructure changes.
You are an experienced software engineer that is passionate, empathetic and focused on team success.
You are able to develop a strong technical and architectural vision, and have a demonstrated ability to communicate, advocate, and execute that vision.
You have demonstrated experience mentoring junior engineers, and teaching proven practices that help teams grow.
You have ownership experience in a large-scale, enterprise environment, leading teams which build and operate mission-critical PaaS or SaaS products.
You have experience developing, debugging and scaling distributed systems on a flavor of Unix.
You have 5+ years relevant work experience, or a degree supplemented with relevant experience in the field.
As a Staff Software Engineer in Developer Platforms, you will live the Twilio Magic values:
BE AN OWNER: You own services from end to end. You care just as much about customer experience as you do about operational maturity and scalability.
EMPOWER OTHERS: You empower customers and the team alike. You empower customers by understanding their needs and advocating for them. You empower the team by raising the bar and uplifting others.
RUTHLESSLY PRIORITIZE: You can sift through countless competing requests and maintain focus on the highest priority. You enjoy breaking down complex problems to identify the most important work.
DRAW THE OWL: You can lead the team through ambiguous problems, inviting collaboration and driving toward solutions. You champion meticulous, high quality engineering and you are a role model for software development habits and practices for distributed systems.
WRITE IT DOWN: You demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication - ensure that complex ideas, thoughts, and vision can be communicated simply and effectively. You are expected to thrive in a highly collaborative environment.
The Twilio Technology Platform organization empowers every Twilio developer to be their best at Twilio. The Continuous Delivery team is dedicated to providing services that enable Twilio developers to deploy safely, confidently, and efficiently. In this way we contribute to Twilios top priority, Customer Trust.
Twilio is a company that is empowering the worlds developers with modern communication in order to build better applications. Twilio is truly unique; we are a company committed to your growth, your learning, your development, and your entire employee experience. We only win when our employees succeed and we're dedicated to helping you develop your strengths. We have a cultural foundation built on diversity, inclusion, and innovation and we want you and your ideas to thrive at Twilio.
This position is in the US, either at a location that has a Twilio office, or remote. You will enjoy our office perks: catered meals, snacks, game room, ergonomic desks, massages, Wednesday dinners, bi-weekly All Hands and more. What you will also get to experience is a company that believes in small teams for maximum impact; seeks well-rounded talent to ensure a full perspective on our customers experience, understands that this is a marathon, not a sprint; that continuously and purposefully builds an inclusive culture where everyone is able to do and be the best version of themselves.
Millions of developers around the world have used Twilio to unlock the magic of communications to improve any human experience. Twilio has democratized communications channels like voice, text, chat, video and email by virtualizing the worlds communications infrastructure through APIs that are simple enough for any developer to use, yet robust enough to power the worlds most demanding applications. By making communications a part of every software developers toolkit, Twilio is enabling innovators across every industry from emerging leaders to the worlds largest organizations to reinvent how companies engage with their customers.
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