Software Engineer- New Grad

Job Description

Because you belong at Twilio

The Who, What, Why and Where

Who?

Twilio is looking for Software Engineers who want to design, develop, deploy and operate software solutions and help Twilio deliver real-time, low latency capabilities for next-generation communications. You are eager to learn and inspire and you like to think at scale and meet high availability goals, bringing a focus on solving resiliency, latency and quality challenges in our virtualized cloud environment. You want to develop technical skills and industry experience while working on complex distributed systems

You should have some or all of the following:

• Pursuing a Bachelors, Masters or Phd degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience
• Proficient background in networking, operating systems, and security
• 0-3 years of software development experience in modern programming languages. Go (prefered), Java, Python, Ruby, or C++.
• Knowledge of unit and integration testing methodologies, and the ability to write, debug and deploy testing frameworks
• Experience generating, storing and managing both structured and unstructured data, e.g. RDBMS, NoSQL, Big Data
• Ability to craft clear and concise documentation

Marketing Applications Platform - As a member of the Marketing Applications Platform team, you will be directly responsible for helping build our next-gen marketing communications products. With a constant focus on our users, we plan to deliver a new set of tools that will disrupt the marketing SAAS industry. You will get a chance to design and implement solutions that will provide marketers and developers alike with the tools they need to create personalized communication experiences for their customers.

Customer Data Platform - At Twilio, our mission is to power the future of communications. We are looking for a passionate early in career Software Engineer to join a fast-paced Events Streams Engineering team. You will be challenged with high scale and distributed-system problems while providing our customers with valuable data. Our programmatic Events Streams product provides data leveraging a variety of technologies such as Kinesis/Kafka and is built using Kubernetes and AWS cloud infrastructure.

What?

As a Software Engineer -

• Within the first 6 months of work, you will design, prototype, implement and deploy one or more core Twilio platform services.
• The process will include developing an early understanding of the product, documenting design and code details and participating in peer code reviews. The resulting service will require integration with other existing Twilio systems, as well as with Twilio’s performance and availability monitoring suite.
• Write maintainable code with extensive test coverage, working in a professional software engineering environment (with source control, dev/stage/prod release cycle, continuous deployment).
• Collaborate across the company and interact with our customers (software engineers) to define, design and build new APIs.
• BE INCLUSIVE : Work in a small, high-impact, diverse team
• DRAW THE OWL : Tackle complex problems in distributed computing, virtualization performance, distributed queuing, and more.
• BE AN OWNER : Build and operate your team's services in a production environment leveraging a DevOps model; Participate in team on-call rotation.

Why?

Twilio is a company that is empowering the world’s 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 invest in weeks dedicated to tackling hard problems and creating your own ideas. We have a cultural foundation built on diversity, inclusion and innovation and we want you and your ideas to thrive at Twilio. Come join us.

Where?

This position will be located at our Denver Twilio office where you will enjoy our incredible perks: monthly Kindle book reimbursement, monthly gym reimbursement, unlimited PTO and more. What you will also get to experience is a company that believes in small teams for maximum impact; that strives to balance work and home life, that 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. We seek people who naturally demonstrate our values , who are challenged by problems, empower others to thrive, people who can draw the owl and not be beholden to one playbook.

About us:

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 world’s communications infrastructure through APIs that are simple enough for any developer to use, yet robust enough to power the world’s most demanding applications. By making communications a part of every software developer’s toolkit, Twilio is enabling innovators across every industry — from emerging leaders to the world’s largest organizations — to reinvent how companies engage with their customers.