Software Engineer Intern

See yourself at Twilio

Join the team as our next Software Engineer Intern for a duration of 12 weeks (Start: June).

About the job

This position is needed to design, develop, deploy and operate software solutions and help Twilio deliver real-time, low latency capabilities for next-generation communications. Twilio Interns in Software Engineering are eager to learn and inspire and like to think at scale and meet high availability goals, bringing a focus to solving resiliency, latency and quality challenges in our virtualized cloud environment. Software Engineers want to develop technical skills and industry experience while working on complex distributed systems.

Responsibilities

As a Software Engineer Intern you will experience the following:

• Be a Software Engineer, not just an "intern".
• Ship many different projects during your summer.
• Learn from passionate engineers at Twilio who solve problems in distributed computing, real-time DSP (audio processing), virtualization performance, distributed messaging, busses and more.
• You will be given responsibility for core features and services that ship to our users.
• You will be expected to embrace these challenges, learn fast and deliver great results.
• You will bring a willingness to learn and grow and we will reciprocate with ample opportunity to do just that, in a friendly, fun and exciting startup environment!
• Learn to develop beautiful and profitable applications.
• Demonstrate consistent improvement in your coding skills, issue-tracking and source control systems, and agile development mentality.
• Participate in code reviews, bug tracking and project management with the rest of the Twilio Team.

Qualifications

Not all applicants will have skills that match a job description exactly. Twilio values diverse experiences in other industries, and we encourage everyone who meets the required qualifications to apply. While having “desired” qualifications make for a strong candidate, we encourage applicants with alternative experiences to also apply. If your career is just starting or hasn't followed a traditional path, don't let that stop you from considering Twilio. We are always looking for people who will bring something new to the table!

Required:

• To be working towards a Bachelors, Masters, or PhD degree in computer science, computer engineering or a related field.
• To have a keen interest in software development with several side projects and perhaps are a part of the open source community.
• To have a hungry entrepreneurial and "can do" spirit, as evidenced by successful interest in learning new technologies.
• To have explored writing code in any of the following languages: Python/Java/Javascript/PHP/C or C++.

Desired:

• Having knowledge of unit and integration testing methodologies, and the ability to write, debug and deploy testing frameworks.
• Experience in data processing, analytics, business intelligence, and reporting.
• Experience with technologies such as Hadoop, spark, python, scala etc.

What We Offer

There are many benefits to interning at Twilio, including competitive pay, generous time off, and flexible working! Offerings vary by location.