Software Engineer L2 - Cloud Infrastructure

Twilio's Cloud Infrastructure team owns the compute layer that the rest of the company runs on, including virtual machine orchestration, AWS Auto Scaling Groups, hardened base AMIs and container images. This is a mid level engineering post, remote within the United States but excluding the San Francisco Bay Area, Oakland, San Jose and the surrounding region.

What you would work on - Working with tech leads and architects on distributed computing and infrastructure design - Automating operational work across monitoring, capacity planning and disaster response - Applying infrastructure as code standards consistently across the estate - Writing and reviewing design documents and runbooks so operational knowledge is shared - Keeping existing compute components healthy while newer ones are introduced - Taking a turn in the on-call rotation for infrastructure the business depends on

What they are looking for - Two or more years managing AWS cloud infrastructure, specifically AMIs, EC2 and IAM - Strong knowledge of Auto Scaling Groups in cloud native environments - Experience with hardened base AMIs and with Amazon Linux 2 and Amazon Linux 2023 - Working proficiency in Java or Python - Solid shell scripting ability - Familiarity with container based applications and services - The independence to work across teams spread around the world, and willingness to join the on-call rotation

Stack: AWS, EC2, IAM, AMI, Amazon Linux 2, Amazon Linux 2023, Java, Python, shell scripting, GitHub, Buildkite, Terraform Cloud, ArgoCD, Harness, Datadog, Prometheus, Falco, Kubernetes, Claude

Compensation: The employer publishes ranges of $116,960.00 to $146,200.00 USD for Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Vermont and Washington DC, $123,760.00 to $154,700.00 USD for New York, New Jersey, Washington and California outside the Bay Area, and $137,520.00 to $171,900.00 USD for the San Francisco Bay Area.