About Us

Twitch is the world’s biggest live streaming service, with global communities built around gaming, entertainment, music, sports, cooking, and more. It is where thousands of communities come together for whatever, every day.

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About the Role

Twitch enables content creators to live-stream content to their communities across the globe. Advertising is a core part of Twitch's business model, and spans across many product areas. We take pride in our mission to help creators earn a living by entertaining and educating their viewers. You'll be part of a passionate and customer-obsessed team working to prove Twitch is the best advertising platform for creators and advertisers alike.

Twitch is looking for versatile engineers with the curiosity and creativity to develop massively scalable services, integrations, and data processing pipelines that support our advertising business. As a senior engineer, you should be comfortable contributing to technical strategy, architecture design, and engineering excellence at the team and organization levels. You will work with engineers, product managers, and program managers to build products that delight our customers.

As the leader in live-streaming, Twitch is home to unique opportunities and challenges in the advertising space. If you're excited about joining our team and having an outsized impact on Twitch and its creators, come work with us!

You Will:

• Develop and operate new product features on native AWS infrastructure
• Scale and improve existing services used to power the Twitch advertising platform
• Improve engineering processes to increase team effectiveness
• Mentor and cultivate the growth of the engineers around you
• Contribute to overall team and organization technical strategy and architecture design
• Work across teams, organizations, and third parties to provide value to our customers

You Have:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field
• 5+ years experience in Go, Java, Python, C++, or similar languages
• 5+ years experience developing and operating low-latency distributed services, and/or high-volume data processing workflows
• Experience refining technical strategy and mentoring engineers

Bonus Points

• Experience with the AWS ecosystem of services (Lambda, EC2, RDS, Dynamo, or CloudWatch)
• Experience with data pipelines (Kinesis, Airflow, Redshift, or Spark)
• Experience with web development (React, TypeScript, Jest)
• Experience with mobile development (Android, iOS)
• Familiarity with the ad industry and ad measurement space

Perks

• Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance
• 401(k)
• Maternity & Parental Leave
• Flexible PTO
• Amazon Employee Discount

Job ID: TW9218