Senior Software Engineer, Measurement Tooling, Engineering Effectiveness

  • 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

We are Twitter’s Engineering Effectiveness organization, and we help Twitter engineers develop world-class software by implementing IDEs for complex, polyglot source code, building tools, and developing source control systems and continuous integration infrastructure.

Our team of engineers is responsible for providing and maintaining measurement tooling to provide timely and accurate measurement data for tools that engineers at Twitter use to build and deploy software. This measurement tooling enables customer teams to provide logs and metrics for their services in a robust, forward-thinking manner to better serve our customers: all of Twitter Engineering.  

What you’ll do

This backend tooling role will work cross-functionally (and potentially cross-org) to help design and implement future iterations of our Engineering Effectiveness measurement tooling as well as helping to maintain our current measurement tooling. Candidates who enjoy working with data, building pipelines, creating instrumentation libraries supporting several programming languages, and understanding how we can help our customers provide the best Twitter Engineering experience possible are encouraged to apply. If you have empathy for developers, passion for engineering productivity, and experience delivering scalable systems - you will find this role liberating, challenging, and most of all fun. 

 

Qualifications

Candidates with experience in one or more of these areas should find themselves at home:

  • Experience with building end to end systems for generating and analyzing system and client telemetry signals.

  • Client data collection (ex. FluentD, Fluent bit, Prometheus)

  • Familiarity with OpenTelemetry standards

  • Application Performance Measurement (APM) systems (ex. Honeycomb, Splunk APM)

  • Developer analytic dashboards

  • Open source solutions and/or 3rd party solutions and knowing when it’s appropriate to BYO (build your own)

Requirements

  • Bachelors or higher in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience.

  • Strong Computer Science fundamentals, algorithms, and data structures background

  • Enjoy interacting with and helping customers

  • Willing to embrace and enrich Twitter’s culture of empathy, teamwork and passion. #GrowTogether

  • Have a strong desire for learning and growth.

  • Passionate about improving developer productivity

  • Know how to work in a diverse environment in a respectful and kind manner.

Additional Information

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