Who We Are:

Our mission is to enable rapid product iteration at the Twitter scale through powerful generic building blocks, flexible abstractions, and self-service tooling! 

The Core Service teams provide interfaces and tools that make it easy to build on top of Twitter data and core Twitter objects (such as Tweets and Users) while minimizing operational concerns and ensuring user privacy.

Our application infrastructure is critical to the product and must be highly reliable and scale to millions of requests per second.

Working together on building and operating our own high-scale systems is a rare and exciting challenge! We are a tightly-knit and supportive group that loves working together, and we are looking for outstanding additions to our flock.

What You’ll Do

You'll join our Core API team aiming to radically improve the way Twitter clients get their data. Day-to-day you'll be designing, building, and maintaining the Twitter core API infrastructure which includes GraphQL API and asynchronous event delivery system. You will work to onboard new clients, add support for new data, as well as create tools for our engineers building the Twitter product.

Twitter GraphQL is already serving millions of queries and the asynchronous event delivery system pushes billions of events per day, and that's just the start.

You'll write user-friendly guides and documentation to make it easy for client and server engineers to use our services, and spend time with client teams to identify where we can provide the most value.

Your work will make our apps much more data-efficient and reliable, helping Twitter reach countries with developing communications networks and allow client engineers to rapidly build high-quality products.

At Twitter, you can have a truly global impact.

You have:

• An interest in GraphQL or related technology

• Built and maintained high-performance, scalable systems in a microservice environment

• Great verbal and written communication skills

• Empathy for internal customers

• Experience in API & service architecture design

• Solid understanding of the client/server technology stack (HTTP, REST, compression, serialization, error handling)

• Experience with Scala, Java, Clojure or other server-side technology

• Some experience working on a native (iOS or Android) or web application, so you can not only understand the complexities and requirements of client-side software engineers but also build/improve developer tooling

• Endless curiosity and ability to work both collaboratively and independently

Why Work with Us

• 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 diverse backgrounds, ideas, and experiences. Diversity makes us a better organization and team.

• Work, Life, Balance - We work hard, but we believe with hard work should come balance.

• Collaboration - If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. We want to 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$128,000.00 - USD$179,000.00. 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.