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Sr. Software Engineer (Backend) - Core Services
San Francisco, CA
Who We Are:

Our teams own the core application infrastructure for tweets, users, graph relationships (e.g. follow, block, mute, list subscription, etc), and URLs (links) that form the core building blocks of the Twitter product.

On top of that, we provide internal interfaces (request/response and push-based) and tools to conveniently and efficiently access Twitter data at scale, respecting users’ privacy.

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

What You’ll Do:

You will join forces with teammates to deliver cool high scale infrastructure and product features. Our team owns some of the world’s largest distributed systems that power a platform relied upon by many people across the world.

You will work on a product that has global impact!

Who You Are:

You are curious and open to new ideas
You have strong opinions but are willing to change your mind
You love to collaborate, mentor, and learn with a great team
You care about delivering high-quality software in a team environment
You want to iterate quickly and safely on high scale systems
You believe that anything that can be automated should be automated
You like to dig into hard problems and solve them together
No matter how senior you are, you are always looking for opportunities to grow and learn
You are an expert in one or more general purpose languages
You enjoy working both collaboratively and independently
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At least 4 years of software development experience
Proven experience with software engineering best practices
Experience with 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.
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Once your application is received, a recruiter will reach out pending your qualifications are a match for the role.

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If your background is a match, you may have 1-2 technical phone interviews or be given the chance to provide a work sample depending on the role.

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If the phone interviews go well or your work sample is strong, the final step includes interviews with 5-6 people held onsite in our office.

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