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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 80 days Twilio's roles stay open a median of 80 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- Yes 47% of Twilio's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Twilio
- high 152 stale, 14 reposted of 158 open
- Hiring momentum
- 277 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-23
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Twilio's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Twilio.
About this role
As a Software Engineer L3 at Twilio, you will develop, deploy, and manage large-scale distributed systems, particularly within the Twilio SendGrid email platform. Your responsibilities will include architecting reliable features, driving code quality, managing cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure, and mentoring junior engineers. This role emphasizes modernizing backend systems and optimizing Go-based microservices to handle high email throughput.
- benefits
- 3/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 5/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Twilio as an employer.
What you need
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating resilient backend services at scale
- Practical experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools to accelerate code generation, automate testing, and streamline debugging workflows
- Strong, hands-on production experience writing clean, idiomatic, and highly concurrent Go (Golang), Java or Python
- Solid experience deploying and managing production workloads in cloud environments, ideally with deep exposure to AWS core services and Microsoft Azure equivalents
- Proficiency with Terraform for provision-level automation and maintaining environment parity
- Strong theoretical and practical understanding of distributed datastores, caching layers, and asynchronous event streaming
Nice to have
- Prior experience managing high-throughput applications running inside containerized infrastructure (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Familiarity with database migration pathways
- Experience implementing OpenTelemetry or distributed tracing systems across decoupled microservice platforms
- Direct experience handling constraints related to network topology, proxy layers, or mail transfer agent (MTA) protocols
What you get
- Competitive pay
- Generous time off
- Ample parental and wellness leave
- Healthcare
- Retirement savings program
- Participation in Twilio’s equity plan and corporate bonus plan
Worth weighing
- Remote-first work culture with occasional in-person meetings required
- Salary range provided only for specific states; compensation for other locations discussed during hiring process
- Role may involve working with legacy systems as part of modernization efforts
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Listed by Twilio on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-23. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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