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.

Who We Are:

The Real-Time Media Infrastructure team owns the services and client libraries that power WebRTC in Twitter. With services running in AWS across 11 points of presence and client libraries on iOS and Android, the team owns signaling, SFU, and TURN solutions as well as client-side signal processing and metrics that allow us to assess quality and reliability.  

Our team currently consists of 6 engineers who have a skillset that combines media engineering, real-time communication, distributed systems, and iOS, Android, and Web software development. Geographically, the team is split between the west coast of the US and London. As Twitter continues to invest in media experiences and in accelerating its development velocity, we expect the team to grow.  

What You’ll Do

• You will lead a team of 6-10 software engineers.

• You will oversee coaching, provide technical mentorship, and handle performance management for your direct reports. 

• You will work with product management and the team to define technical roadmaps, and  plan and track quarterly goals for the team. 

• You will represent the team in various technical and non-technical contexts to the rest of the organization and the company. 

• You will take responsibility for the group’s technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap by defining success metrics in close collaboration with the team and other engineering and product leaders.

• You will guide the team and encourage a growth mindset as it continues to evolve its work culture and technical processes.

• You will use hands-on knowledge of media and distributed systems engineering to make decisions and help the team make decisions.

• You will prioritize the team’s roadmap across feature work, operational improvements, and tech debt categories based on your technical evaluation of current operational and code maintainability state.

Who You Are:

An experienced media software or real-time communication engineer at heart that has intentionally transitioned to people management and is looking for a new challenge. The ideal candidate is looking for an engineering management position that provides challenges around keeping a distributed team healthy and happy, managing stakeholders, maintaining a large portfolio of services and client libraries with a relatively small team, and hitting a fine balance between investing in foundational infrastructure and new features.

You probably:

• Are a strong believer in servant leadership, and are there first and foremost to bring the best out of other people

• Are an engineer at your core, and have technical depth that lets you understand and earn the respect of world-class engineers

• Have a track record of leading and managing engineering teams that are highly cohesive, have low attrition, and rate themselves as very healthy

• Thrive on leveraging data to make decisions, but can rely on intuition when obtaining data is not feasible

• Are relentless on prioritization, comfortable with pushing back, and able to juggle responsibilities and wear different hats throughout the day.

• Excel at communication, and can explain complex technical issues accurately to technical and non-technical audiences

Requirements: 

• BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering as an individual contributor and/or people manager

• 3+ years of people management experience

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.