Overview
The role involves serving as Twilio’s Senior Engineering Manager for Voice Media. This position requires leading a team to develop the next-generation media processing stack that supports Twilio's Voice services on a global scale.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead a team of senior engineers in developing Twilio's media processing stack.
- Drive technical architecture decisions for low-latency, high-throughput media systems.
- Collaborate with product and platform teams to define technical roadmaps.
- Establish engineering excellence through code quality standards and testing practices.
- Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance on complex media processing challenges.
- Balance technical debt reduction with feature development while maintaining service reliability.
- Build and evolve systems for real-time media processing at scale.
- Own service performance metrics and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Partner with engineering leaders to align media platform capabilities with broader Voice strategy.
- Make key technology stack decisions impacting Twilio's media processing capabilities.
Requirements
- 5+ years of engineering management experience in distributed systems.
- Understanding of Voice/VoIP infrastructure and media handling challenges.
- Strong background in architecting and building backend services at scale.
- Deep understanding of systems design, microservice architecture, and cloud infrastructure.
- Experience managing technical tradeoffs between reliability and feature development.
- Track record of delivering critical infrastructure projects with technical complexity.
- Experience using AI tools to improve developer velocity.
- Excellent communication skills for translating complex concepts.
- Experience with real-time communications systems, media processing, or streaming technologies.
Benefits
Twilio offers competitive pay, generous time off, wellness leave, healthcare, and retirement savings programs. Additional compensation opportunities may include incentive programs, commissions, equity grants, health benefits, and more.
Location
This role is remote and based in Ontario or Alberta, Canada.
How to Apply
If you are interested in this role, please apply using the appropriate channels.