Software Engineer, Platform Engineering L2

Twilio

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Remote

Quick summary

Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$116,960–$146,200 / yr
Posted
125 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live today
Closes
Dec 21, 2026

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Salary context

Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $176k
This role $132k
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This role pays less than 92% of similar roles. Most pay $151,000–$201,600 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $132k versus about $176k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About Twilio

Twilio is a cloud communications platform that provides APIs and software, allowing developers to embed voice, messaging, video, and email functionalities directly into their applications.

Twilio currently has 25 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $155,520–$194,400 across 19 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Software Engineer, Platform Engineering L2

The Software Engineer, Platform Engineering (L2) joins the Twilio Platform Engineering team to build and operate backend services for highly available, large-scale distributed systems. This role involves designing and maintaining services that support Kubernetes clusters, ensuring system health under heavy production loads such as peak email processing events. You will work on a dual-cloud infrastructure spanning Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, contributing to infrastructure automation using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code. Key responsibilities include participating in code reviews, maintaining observability coverage for data pipelines, and writing production code. Required skills include experience with Kubernetes, Shell, Terraform, YAML, or Go, alongside familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, and distributed systems concepts like caching layers or asynchronous event streaming.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Remote?

Median $208800 from 354 postings across 50 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design, build, and operate services and automations to support Kubernetes clusters at scale.
  • Write production code for backend services to maintain healthy distributed systems under real load.
  • Participate in code reviews and follow established testing standards for unit and integration tests.
  • Support cloud configurations across AWS and Azure environments using Terraform Infrastructure as Code.
  • Maintain observability coverage including metrics, alerts, and distributed tracing across core data pipelines.
  • Identify and flag technical debt, bugs, and small-scale system issues to the engineering team.
  • Use AI-assisted tooling to automate testing, support debugging workflows, and accelerate development.

What we're looking for

  • 1-2+ years of professional software engineering experience including exposure to building or operating backend services using Kubernetes.
  • Practical experience with, or a strong desire to learn, AI-assisted development tools like Claude Code.
  • Exposure to GitOps workflows (e.g., ArgoCD) and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Harness).
  • Working knowledge of at least one of Shell, Terraform, YAML, or Go (Golang).
  • Experience with cloud environments, ideally AWS core services (EC2, S3, EKS) or Microsoft Azure equivalents.
  • Basic familiarity with Terraform or similar Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools.
  • Foundational understanding of distributed datastores, caching layers, or asynchronous event streaming (e.g., Kafka).
  • Solid computer science fundamentals and data structures knowledge.

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