Sr Software Engineer, Media

Description

If you are interested in this position, please apply on Twitch's Career site

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 Role

The Media Technology Engineering team is a center of excellence for streaming media processing (transmuxing, transcoding), codec technologies (H.264 / AVC, H.265 / HEVC, AV1), media formats (HLS, TS, FMP4), network protocols (E-RTMP, SRT, WebRTC), and media quality analysis (VMAF, PSNR). We design, deliver, and maintain core native software libraries that power production services across the organization. As a cross-functional organization, we develop across many internal production services and collaborate closely with many teams to enable efficient and fast delivery of new media features.

You can work from San Francisco, Seattle, or Vancouver, BC.

You Will

Design, develop, and maintain server-side processing software in C / C++, Rust, and Golang

Perform codec implementation comparison studies and dive deep into media quality

Iterate on metric and alarms to improve operational reliability

Leverage data and experiments to guide media features from concept to production

Perks

Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance

401(k)

Maternity & Parental Leave

Flexible PTO

Amazon Employee Discount

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 5 million 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.

Basic Qualifications

6+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

6+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience

6+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

B.A. or B.S. in Computer Science or a related discipline, or equivalent years of experience

Expertise in client and server-side software engineering in production environments

Experience optimizing multitenant, complex end-to-end systems including performance optimization at the component level

Worked directly with customers in an enterprise B2B software environment

Previous experience leading cross-team, cross-org technical media programs or features

Strong familiarity with adaptive video streaming technologies (HLS, LL-HLS, DASH) and codecs such as H.264, H.265, and AV1

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with network protocols like RTMP, E-RTMP, SRT, WebRTC, HTTPS, TCP, and UDP

Comfort with performance tuning through experimentation and analysis

Interest in growing into team leadership role from a individual contributor role

Twitch is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants : Job duties for this position include : work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company's reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $151,300 / year in our lowest geographic market up to $261,500 / year in 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. For more information, please visit . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.