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 feel 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.

Who We Are:

Tweet Services team owns the core application infrastructure for storing and serving Tweets at scale and in real time.  We provide the fundamental abstractions and APIs for life cycle management of Tweets. Our customers include a wide range of teams that build Consumer, Revenue and developer API products for Twitter. 

Our vision is to provide a scalable, reliable, self service Tweet platform which enables product teams to quickly and safely build and iterate on Tweet related features at scale.

What You’ll Do:

• Rearchitect our core systems that power Tweet functionality

• Collaborate closely with our customers and cross functional partners to deliver high impact projects

• Influence the roadmap and technical direction of the team 

• Work with a highly collaborative team on design and development of fundamental Tweet capabilities that will increase the pace of product development

What we are looking for:

• At least 6+ years of proven experience with backend software development

• Experience  leading complex and diverse work, projects, and programs that positively impact multiple teams

• Strong collaboration skills and ability to work on ambiguous problems

• Experience with architecting and maintaining scalable and reliable distributed systems

• Experience in Scala or other JVM-based languages preferred

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.