On 13 February 2020, social media platform Twitter announced that it will set up its first Asia Pacific (APAC) engineering centre in Singapore, and create 65 technical jobs in the next few years in the areas of product engineering, software engineering, data engineering and data science. The centre will be sited at the company's APAC headquarters in the CapitaGreen building in Shenton Way, and will serve to strengthen Twitter’s global engineering capabilities and improve service availability and reliability for users.
The engineering centre is part of Twitter’s expansion in Asia Pacific, and is a “strategic investment that demonstrates our commitment to this important region”, said Twitter’s Vice President of Asia-Pacific, Ms Maya Hari. “We are thrilled to bring some of the best, cutting-edge engineering jobs to Singapore, from product development to data science to machine learning,” she added.
Mr Kiren Kumar, Chief Digital Industry Officer at Digital Industry Singapore, a joint office of government agencies Economic Development Board, Enterprise Singapore and Info-communications Media Development Authority, said "Twitter's move demonstrates confidence in Singapore as a world-class engineering talent hub, and will create exciting, new job opportunities for Singapore and Singaporeans.
