Principal Engineer (L5) at Twilio, Remote

Twilio is hiring a Principal Engineer (L5) within its Engineering team in Remote - India. The details below summarise the employer's own posting; applications happen on Twilio's official careers channel, not on GetFirstJob.

What the work involves

As a Principal Engineer on the Twilio Segment Data platform/pipelines team, you won’t just design systems—you will be the design anchor for data platforms that processes hundreds of thousands of data points per second.
We are looking for a visionary, deeply inquisitive engineer who has built 0-1 architectures, scaled them to global proportions, and collected the battle scars that come from pushing cloud-native systems to their absolute limits.
You will guide our engineering organization through complex distributed design choices, ensuring reliability, performance, and cost-efficiency while querying petabytes of data for the world's leading Customer Data Platform (CDP).

What the employer asks for

Required: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field. 12+ years of programming experience.
- years of programming experience.
Deep battle-tested experience with high-scale messaging/streaming systems and distributed processing engines (handling several thousand events/sec minimum).

Pay, location and application

The listing does not disclose salary, so raise compensation early in the process. The role is remote in Remote - India. The employer asks for 12+ years of. The employer's Greenhouse board shows this listing last updated on 2026-11-02; it was first seen and checked as open on 4 November 2026.

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