Job added in hotlist
Applied job
Contract job
90-day-old-job
part-time-job
Recruiter job
Employer job
Expanded search
Apply online not available
View more jobs in Atlanta, GA
View more jobs in Georgia

Job Details

Senior Director Engineering - IAC / Platform

Company name
Twilio Inc

Location
Atlanta, GA, United States

Employment Type
Full-Time

Industry
Engineering, Manager, It, Executive

Posted on
Jun 21, 2021

Apply for this job






Profile

Because you belong at Twilio.

The Who, What, Why and Where

Twilio is growing rapidly and seeking a Senior Director of Engineering to lead infrastructure and quality capabilities for the Flex BU. Flex, the first fully programmable cloud contact center, is a platform product that integrates native Twilio services while serving up a pluggable infrastructure that allows partners and customers to extend and customize the platform for their unique needs. This new role sits within the Flex product BU and will support the acceleration of quality goals for the BU and align and influence broader Twilio goals in the platform discipline. You will build an organization of Infrastructure as Code (IAC) and Application Testing (SDET) teams that raises the bar on overall product quality by evolving our deployment pipelines, tools, and testing capabilities to world class status. Flex teams, much like all of Twilio, own their services from inception to production. This role will accelerate the tools and capabilities available to teams and ensure consistency across the BU. In this role, you will develop a strategy and prioritize implementation of the highest ROI value items for the BU that accelerate our ability to deploy, manage, and test our systems across multiple pods or geographies. You will lead teams to solve technical challenges alongside Flex application development engineers that allow us to win as a team. In this role, you will be part of a global team that is changing how we look at platform capabilities within Flex and you will partner with Twilio platform teams to influence and contribute back to broader corporate platform strategies; seeing your ideas implemented across the entire Twilio R&D organization.

Who?

Twilio is looking for a leader who lives the Twilio Magic and has a demonstrated track record of building horizontal platforms that support product teams. They also have:

Experience defining technical roadmaps and collaborating across multiple global teams, leading development, configuration, deployment, and operations for DevOps or engineering teams

Enthusiasm for developer platforms and quality processes for continuous delivery of software and infrastructure changes.

Experience working in or leading application development teams with a DevOps mindset

A history of working with highly scalable distributed systems with a focus on operational excellence.

Experience in agile processes and best practices and a focus on delivering incremental customer value.

8 years of management experience including 3 years leading teams in a DevOps/Platform environment.

Distill complex and ambiguous situations into actionable plans for your team

Have a degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

What?

As an Engineering Manager, you will live the Twilio Magic values:

DRAW THE OWL: There is no instruction book, it’s ours to write. This is an opportunity to come in and lead to fill gaps in our delivery & quality model. Bring your ideas and passion for implementation and a drive to make the entire team successful.

BE AN OWNER: Build and grow a team of passionate engineers. Provide support and guidance that enables the team to self-organize and to achieve sustained high velocity and predictability in delivering software changes. Work closely with both Flex and Twilio Platform teams to drive and adopt emerging best practices and technologies.

WEAR THE CUSTOMER’S SHOES: Your teams will build and operate services and platform capabilities that delight your customers. You will get to know your customers and walk in their shoes, by listening to your customers’ challenges, identifying opportunities, and crafting solutions.

EMPOWER OTHERS - You will foster the growth of an inclusive, high-performing team geographically distribed across NAMER, EMEA, APAC. Outside your team, you will champion communities of practice, and can be an expert to lead and mentor when needed. Most importantly, you have the desire to collaborate across teams on best practices to build, test and operate services at scale.

WRITE IT DOWN: You will communicate effectively to executives, to your peers, and internally among your team. You can distill complex thoughts and articulate concepts and project plans in written and verbal communication.

NO SHENANIGANS: Be intellectually honest when evaluating tools, conducting due diligence, and deciding development strategy and execution within your team.

Why?

Twilo Flex lies at the heart of the Twilio’s strategic priorities. In this role you would influence Twilio’s newest and fastest growing product. You would be a visible leader and would work closely with teams at every layer of the company. Your success would deliver great customer experiences at major brands around the world (Twilio’s customers), and you would enable them to deliver better services to their customers.

Twilio is a company that is empowering the world’s developers with modern communication in order to build better applications. Twilio is truly unique; we are a company committed to your growth, your learning, your development, and your entire employee experience. We only win when our employees succeed and we're dedicated to helping you develop your strengths. We have a cultural foundation built on diversity, inclusion, and innovation and we want you and your ideas to thrive at Twilio.

Where?

This position will be located in our office in Atlanta or remotely in the East Coast. Should you join us full time in our offices, you will enjoy our office perks: catered meals, snacks, game room, ergonomic desks, massages, and more. What you will also get to experience is a company that believes in small teams for maximum impact; seeks well-rounded talent to ensure a full perspective on our customers’ experience, understands that this is a marathon, not a sprint; that continuously and purposefully builds an inclusive culture where everyone is able to do and be the best version of themselves.

About Us

Millions of developers around the world have used Twilio to unlock the magic of communications to improve any human experience. Twilio has democratized communications channels like voice, text, chat, video and email by virtualizing the world’s communications infrastructure through APIs that are simple enough for any developer to use, yet robust enough to power the world’s most demanding applications. By making communications a part of every software developer’s toolkit, Twilio is enabling innovators across every industry — from emerging leaders to the world’s largest organizations — to reinvent how companies engage with their customers.

Twilio is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity, parental or pregnancy status, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or Veteran status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Healthcare Insurance and Leave

Prescription Drug

Dental

Vision

Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts

Leave programs for all of life’s moments: maternity, parental/bonding, as well medical leave to care for yourself or a loved one

Financial Benefits

Short and Long Term Disability Insurance

Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance

401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with a match

Reimbursement Programs & Stipends

$65 per month work-from-home stipend

Up to $50 per month for wellness expenses and activities

Up to $30 per month to use towards books/eBooks

Company info

Twilio Inc
Website : https://www.twilio.com

I was facing the seven-year itch at my previous workplace. Thanks to EmploymentCrossing, I'm committed to a fantastic sales job in downtown Manhattan.
Joseph L - New York, NY
  • All we do is research jobs.
  • Our team of researchers, programmers, and analysts find you jobs from over 1,000 career pages and other sources
  • Our members get more interviews and jobs than people who use "public job boards"
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it, you will land among the stars.
InformationTechnologyCrossing - #1 Job Aggregation and Private Job-Opening Research Service — The Most Quality Jobs Anywhere
InformationTechnologyCrossing is the first job consolidation service in the employment industry to seek to include every job that exists in the world.
Copyright © 2024 InformationTechnologyCrossing - All rights reserved. 169 192