Twilio is a company focused on shaping the future of communications, delivering innovative solutions to businesses globally. They are seeking a Senior Manager for their Platform Engineering Secure Supply Chain team to lead infrastructure for software development, ensuring secure and efficient software delivery while driving strategy and collaboration across various teams.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and develop a team of engineers responsible for Twilio's secure supply chain infrastructure, including source control management (SCM), build systems, and artifact management platforms
- Define and execute strategic vision for secure supply chain capabilities that create leverage and centralize the cost of change across the entire engineering organization
- Partner closely with Security, Compliance, and Product Engineering leadership to establish and enforce secure supply chain standards, policies, and best practices company-wide
- Drive operational excellence through metrics, service level objectives, and continuous improvement initiatives that balance security requirements with developer productivity
- Build and maintain strong relationships with internal customers and stakeholders, translating business needs into technical solutions and roadmap priorities
- Develop engineering talent through coaching, mentorship, and career development while fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and technical excellence
- Champion automation, self-service capabilities, and platform thinking to scale secure supply chain practices across Twilio's diverse product portfolio
- Collaborate with peer engineering leaders across the Platform organization to ensure cohesive technical strategy and efficient delivery
- Communicate technical strategy, progress, and challenges effectively to senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders
Requirements:
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, or infrastructure roles, with at least 4+ years in engineering management leading teams of 8-12 engineers
- Proven track record leading platform engineering team and developer platform initiatives at scale in complex, multi-product organizations
- Experience leading teams through significant technical migrations or platform modernization efforts
- Deep technical knowledge of source control systems (GitHub), build systems (Buildkite, GitHub Actions, Harness), and artifact management platforms (Artifactory, Nexus, container registries)
- Strong understanding of secure supply chain practices in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure) including cloud-native CI/CD, container security, infrastructure-as-code, and cloud service integrations
- Demonstrated experience partnering with Security and Compliance teams to implement security controls, vulnerability management, and compliance requirements without compromising developer velocity
- Strong people leadership skills including hiring, performance management, coaching, and developing high-performing engineering teams
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills with ability to influence and align cross-functional partners at all levels of the organization
- Strategic thinking with ability to balance short-term execution against long-term vision and organizational impact
- Experience managing budgets, vendor relationships, and making build-vs-buy decisions for platform capabilities
- Experience with software supply chain security frameworks (SLSA, SBOM, vulnerability scanning, dependency management)
- Background in highly regulated industries or companies with significant compliance requirements (SOX, PCI, SOC2, FedRAMP, ISO)
- Contributions to open source projects or industry thought leadership in secure supply chain or developer platforms