Principal Engineer

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TwilioCommunications / Tech
Location: Remote - US; This role will be remote across USA.Full-TimePrincipal
Salary$188,240.00 - $235,300.00 (CO, HI, IL, MD, MA, MN, VT, DC); $199,280.00 - $249,100.00 (NY, NJ, WA, CA-outside Bay Area); $221,360.00 - $276,700.00 (SF Bay Area, CA)
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Job Details

Experience
16+ years of experience
Required Skills
AWSJavaKubernetesGoCI/CDTerraformMicroservicesDistributed Systems

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.
  • Deep knowledge of AWS ecosystems (Lambda, EKS, DynamoDB, Kafka).
  • Deep experience with cloud-native infrastructure, microservices patterns, and designing 'five-nines' resilient systems.
  • Demonstrated experience using AI tools to significantly accelerate software delivery.
  • Track record of building and maintaining high-volume public-facing APIs.
  • Experience with high-throughput data processing and storage solutions (SQL/NoSQL, Redis, Kafka, or Spark).
  • Proficiency with Kubernetes, Terraform, and modern CI/CD paradigms.
  • Proven ability to influence technical strategy across multiple teams and organizational boundaries.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the architecture and long-term technical roadmap, transitioning legacy systems into a modern, distributed microservices architecture.
  • Automate boilerplate and testing using AI coding assistants like GitHub Copilot and Claude to accelerate delivery.
  • Drive technical excellence across multiple teams, balancing rapid innovation with reliability and security.
  • Partner with Product Managers to translate complex global telecommunications regulations into developer-first APIs.
  • Mentor and uplift senior and staff engineers while fostering a culture of technical curiosity and AI-generated logic orchestration.
  • Identify and mitigate technical risks and lead the team through complex production incidents.
  • Communicate technical strategies through high-quality design documents, RFCs, and presentations.
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$188,240.00 - $235,300.00 (CO, HI, IL, MD, MA, MN, VT, DC); $199,280.00 - $249,100.00 (NY, NJ, WA, CA-outside Bay Area); $221,360.00 - $276,700.00 (SF Bay Area, CA)
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