Software Engineer L2 - Cloud Infrastructure
Twilio
$116,960–$171,900from the description
Jul 14, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A mid-level infrastructure engineering role focused on building and maintaining cloud compute systems, primarily on AWS. Day-to-day work involves managing EC2 auto-scaling groups, hardened base AMIs, and secure container images, as well as automating operational tasks and supporting legacy and cloud-native platforms. Suits engineers with hands-on AWS infrastructure experience and coding ability in Java or Python who are comfortable with on-call responsibilities.
Mid level · 2+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 11,800 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 3,450–17,700
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
The role is titled 'Software Engineer L2', which maps to a Mid-level band; the 2+ years experience requirement and scope (team-level delivery, on-call rotation, no cross-org authority) are consistent with Mid.
SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role blends infrastructure automation and cloud operations with genuine software development (programming languages, SW architecture patterns, clean code). 15-1252 Software Developers is preferred because the JD explicitly requires proficiency in a programming language with software architecture patterns and emphasizes building/automating infrastructure via code, but 15-1244 is a plausible runner-up given the heavy operational and cloud-ops framing.
Compensation ranges vary by state; the min ($116,960) and max ($171,900) reflect the lowest and highest published bands respectively. The role may also be eligible for equity and a corporate bonus.
Container knowledge ('container-based application/services') is listed under Required but is phrased as general awareness rather than a named tool; no specific container technology (e.g. Docker) is named, so no skill entry was emitted for it.
'AL2023' (Amazon Linux 2023) is referenced alongside hardened AMIs in the Required section but is a specific OS version rather than a standalone tool; it is captured under the AMI skill rather than emitted separately.
Prometheus appears in the Desired section spelled 'Phometheus' — treated as a typo for Prometheus and listed as an alternative to DataDog.
Claude AI is listed under Desired ('Experience with Claude AI or similar'); it is marked preferred accordingly.
The posting explicitly excludes San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, CA and surrounding areas from hiring eligibility despite the role being remote.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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