Opportunity overview
What you should know
We checked this opportunity from Twilio. It is listed as India.
The work location is Remote - India. Compensation not stated by employer.
Job description
About this role
As a Principal Engineer on the Twilio Segment Data platform/ pipelines team, you’ll build and scale systems that process several hundred thousands of data points per second. You will lead the development of high-scale ingestion and data processing systems You'll guide the team in designing, operating and maintaining complex distributed systems, ensuring reliability, performance, and cost-efficiency while querying petabytes of data for our customer data platform (CDP).
Responsibilities
- - Own and deliver robust, high-scale routing experiences for the Data platform/ pipelines team for Twilio Segment.
- - Architect and operate always-available, complex distributed systems in cloud environments.
- - Guide technical decisions, articulating trade-offs between cost, performance, and reliability.
- - Translate complex technical strategies into actionable plans for diverse stakeholders, including Product Managers and Architects
Qualifications and requirements
- - Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- - Hands-on experience with high-scale messaging/streaming systems and processing engines (several thousand events/sec).
- - Excellent abilities in high level service design -- modeling interfaces and internals in a properly modular, composable, and extensible way.
- - Expert programming experience in Go or similar object-oriented languages.
- - Demonstrated experience identifying, prototyping, and deploying GenAI/LLM solutions to solve real-world engineering or data processing challenges.
- - Technical depth in distributed systems, high-scale ingestion, and cloud-native architecture.
- - Excellent communication, problem-solving, and operational excellence skills.
- - Proficiency with datastores, distributed caching, and container technologies (Docker/Kubernetes).
- - Experience with modern CI/CD pipelines and observability tools (Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus).
- - Familiarity with AI/ML technologies.
- - Experience managing and operating AWS infrastructure
- - Experience working in a geographically distributed team.
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How this listing was checked
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- Employer or source
- Twilio
- Source checked
- November 1, 2026
- Application destination
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- Work setup and location
- Remote · Remote - India
- Who can apply
- India · Confirmed by source
- Pay
- Compensation not stated by employer.
- Deadline
- Not stated by employer
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