Software Engineer Platform Engineering

Twilio

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Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$138,700–$173,400 / yr
Posted
79 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday
Closes
Dec 21, 2026

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How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $177k
This role $156k
$103k most similar roles pay here $238k

This role pays less than 65% of similar roles. Most pay $151,000–$202,800 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $156k versus about $177k 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 36 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $155,520–$194,400 across 33 roles with salary data.

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At a glance

TL;DR · Software Engineer Platform Engineering

As a Software Engineer-Platform Engineering (L3), you will join the Platform Engineering team to develop, deploy, and manage highly available, massive-scale distributed systems. You will build and operate resilient backend services while ensuring the reliability of dual-cloud infrastructure across Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. Your daily work involves managing Kubernetes clusters at scale, automating infrastructure with Terraform, and writing production code to maintain system health under heavy loads. The role requires proficiency in Go, Shell, Terraform, and Yaml, alongside experience with ArgoCD, Harness, and AI-assisted development tools like Claude Code. You will solve complex technical challenges involving distributed datastores, caching layers, and asynchronous event streaming such as Kafka. Key responsibilities include managing infrastructure as code, ensuring deep observability through metrics and tracing, and proactively addressing technical debt to maintain a robust architectural foundation for high-throughput applications.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Remote?

Median $204500 from 415 postings across 57 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design, build, and operate services to manage large-scale Kubernetes clusters.
  • Manage cloud configurations across AWS and Azure environments using Terraform.
  • Ensure high code quality through rigorous reviews and comprehensive testing standards.
  • Standardize metrics, alerts, and distributed tracing for core data pipelines.
  • Identify and resolve technical debt, system bottlenecks, and single points of failure.
  • Mentor junior engineers and lead technical sprint planning sessions.
  • Implement GitOps workflows and automated pipeline orchestration using tools like ArgoCD.

What we're looking for

  • Must have 4+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating resilient backend services at scale using Kubernetes.
  • Experience with CAPI, EKS, and managing zero-downtime Kubernetes cluster upgrades is required.
  • Proficiency in Shell, Terraform, Yaml, and Go (Golang) is required.
  • Must have hands-on experience implementing GitOps workflows with ArgoCD and automated pipeline orchestration with Harness or similar platforms.
  • Required experience deploying and managing production workloads on AWS (EKS, EC2, S3) or Microsoft Azure (AKS, Virtual Machines, Blob Storage).
  • Must possess a strong understanding of distributed datastores, caching layers, and asynchronous event streaming like Kafka.
  • Experience with AI-assisted development tools to accelerate code generation and automate testing is required.
  • Strong foundational knowledge in computer science fundamentals, data structures, and building self-healing cloud architectures is required.

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