Senior Software Engineer

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.

We’re about community, inside and out. You’ll find coworkers who are eager to team up, collaborate, and smash (or elegantly solve) problems together. We’re on a quest to empower live communities, so if this sounds good to you, see what we’re up to on LinkedIn and X,  and discover the projects we’re solving on our Blog. Be sure to explore our Interviewing Guide to learn how to ace our interview process.

About The Team

Our Video Team is the backbone of Twitch. Twitch processes a massive amount of live video channels and distributes them using the largest dedicated live video CDN in the world, delivering over 25Tbps to more than 5MM concurrent viewers. In addition to serving Twitch traffic, our video platform is offered as Amazon Interactive Video Service, an AWS service that allows the creation of a live video streaming platform with only a few lines of code. Engineers with our Video Team work across a range of areas including ingest, transcoding, and distribution with the lowest latency high-scale HLS distribution system in the world. 

About The Role

This position is on the Video Edge team, responsible for the ingestion of hundreds of thousands or live video content, as well as the distribution worldwide to millions of viewers. This role focuses on designing, building, and maintaining robust, scalable systems that enable our customers to ingest and watch live video. If you're excited by the idea of building backend distributed systems that operate at a worldwide scale, and have an interest in live video, this position is for you.

You can work in San Francisco, CA or Seattle WA. 

You Will:

• Work with data analysts, product managers, technical leads, and other engineers to design, develop, launch, and operate distributed systems at scale.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior members of the team
• Collaborate with both your team and related teams - fostering shared understanding of how to solve common problems and deliver solutions 
• Work backwards from customer problems to drive business impact

You Have:

• BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience
• 6+ years of work experience as a software engineer
• Strong background in the Golang programming language
• Background in deploying and operating services in the AWS ecosystem
• Experience mentoring and developing engineers

Bonus Points

• Background in media protocols (audio / video)
• Experience building highly available and resilient systems
• Experience building distributed systems at scale
• Background in computer networking
• Familiarity with Live Video platforms, either as a viewer or creator, or both

Perks

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

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. 

Job ID: TW8951

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from our lowest geographic market up to our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. This position will remain open until filled. For more information, please visit https://www.twitch.tv/jobs/en/#learn-more. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

US Pay Per Year$151,300—$261,500 USD

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