Senior Software Engineer, Core Services - Backend (Remote Eligible)

  • Full-time

Company Description

Twitter is what’s happening and what people are talking about right now. For us, life's not about a job, it's about purpose. We believe real change starts with conversation. Here, your voice matters. Come as you are and together we'll do what's right (not what's easy) to serve the public conversation.

Job Description

Who We Are:

Our teams own the core application infrastructure for tweets, users, graph relationships, search, and feeds that form the key building blocks of the Twitter product. With that, we provide internal interfaces and tools to conveniently and efficiently access Twitter data at scale, respecting users’ privacy. Our application infrastructure is critical to the product and has to be incredibly reliable and scale to hundreds of millions of requests per second.

Our Vision and Mission:

We strive to be the fastest, most delightful, and dependable way to build innovative product experiences at Twitter, and enable product teams to rapidly create and iterate upon product experiences at scale. We do this while stewarding the definition, evolution, and reliability of Twitter’s core product concepts.

What You’ll Do:

You will join forces with teammates to deliver high scale infrastructure and product features. Our team owns some of the world’s largest distributed systems that power a platform relied upon by many people across the world. Your work here has a global impact!

Who You Are:

  • You are curious and open to new ideas

  • You love to collaborate, mentor, and learn with a great team

  • You care about delivering high-quality software in a team environment

  • You want to iterate quickly and safely on high scale systems

  • You like to dig into hard problems and solve them together

  • You have great verbal and written communication skills

  • No matter how senior you are, you are always looking for opportunities to grow and learn

  • You enjoy working both collaboratively and independently

  • You empathize with internal customers and have a strong customer focus

  • Enjoy deep diving into algorithms and complex data structures, and are passionate about computer science fundamentals.

 

Qualifications

 

  • At least 5 years of software development experience

  • Proven experience with software engineering best practices for iterative development, testing, code reviews, design, documentation, debugging, and problem solving.

  • Experience in Scala or other JVM-based languages preferred.

  • Experience building, designing, improving, maintaining, and debugging complex, scalable distributed systems and/or large-scale data processing.

  • Experience in API and service architecture design.

  • Experience collaborating on or leading complex projects that impact multiple teams.

Additional Information

Why Work with Us

We care about making work happy and productive for everyone, with the option to work from home, wellness benefits, regular focus weeks, #NoMeetingFridays, and six months of parental leave.

  • Challenge - Our teams are solving some of the industry’s hardest problems with the best teammates. Come to be challenged, learn and thrive as an engineer on our team.

  • Diversity - We value all backgrounds, ideas, and experiences. Diversity makes us a better organization and team. Bring your full self!

  • Work, Life, Balance - Be your best self, so you can do your best work. Balance in all things.

  • Collaboration - Help each other, pair up, deliver as a team. Together we can go far.

  • Variety - We encourage team rotations that allow you to work with and learn from other teams in Core Services.


We are committed to an inclusive and diverse Twitter. Twitter is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any other legally protected status.

San Francisco applicants: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Notice (Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act)
The expected salary range for this role to be performed in Colorado is USD$146,000.00 - USD$204,000.00. Starting pay for the successful applicant will depend on a variety of job-related factors, which may include education, training, experience, location, business needs, or market demands. This range may be modified in the future.

This job is also eligible for participation in Twitter’s Performance Bonus Plan and Equity Incentive Plan subject to the terms of the applicable plans and policies.

Twitter offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, sick time, and parental leave. Twitter's benefits prioritize employee wellness and progressive support to our diverse workforce.

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