Software Engineer L2 - Cloud Infrastructure

This position is needed to evolve and maintain fundamental Compute infrastructure, collaborating with a passionate team to enhance the system capabilities. Key responsibilities include develop scalable cloud-native environments, VM orchestration, AWS-ASG Auto Scaling group of EC2 instances, hardened base AMIs, and secure container images while maintaining critical OS libraries. You'll implement solutions for providing robust legacy platform support and cutting-edge cloud-native technologies, all driven by automation and best practices.

Join us in shaping the future of our Compute infrastructure

• Collaborate with Tech Leaders, Architects and other Engineers to develop solutions for complex problems in distributed computing and infrastructure management.
• Automate solutions for operational issues, such as monitoring, performance, planning, and disaster response.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to support our business-critical infrastructure.
• Ensure a high quality implementation by applying Infrastructure as Code industry standards.
• Demonstrate effective communication by authoring and reviewing design documents, runbooks, and other service documentation, and keeping a good record of changes in the systems.
• Apply Agile methodologies to continuously deliver value to the customers.
• Act as point of contact for legacy/new Compute system components.

• 2+ years of experience in AWS Cloud infrastructure management. (preferably backend/infrastructure-focused like AMI, EC2, IAM policies/roles, etc.).
• Strong ASG (Auto Scaling Groups) knowledge, to design, implement, and support scalable cloud-native environments.
• Experience with hardened base AMIs and AL23.
• Proficiency with one or more programming languages: like Java or Python (includes SW Arch patterns, clean code, debugging, etc)
• Proficient in shell scripting to streamline repetitive tasks and enhance efficiency in operations.
• Skills to work independently with multiple global teams, developing, configuring, deploying, and operating the global Twilio Infrastructure Platform, blending operational excellence with development best practices.
• Knowledge of container-based application/services.

Nice to have

• Knowledge on deployment tools and frameworks like infrastructure as a code and continuous deployment processes (ex: Github, Buildkite, Terraform-TFC, ArgoCD, Harness, Cloud network).
• Operational experience in complex distributed systems, including experience with SLO/SLAs towards high availability and reliability goals, including tools like DataDog or Phometheus.
• Exposure to File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) tools, specifically Falco, and awareness of compliance frameworks (PCI, SOX).
• Knowledge in Kubernetes
• Experience with Claude AI or similar.

• Working at Twilio offers many benefits, including competitive pay, generous time off, ample parental and wellness leave, healthcare, a retirement savings program, and much more. Offerings vary by location.