Senior Software Engineer

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

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

Perks

Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance

401(k)

Maternity & Parental Leave

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 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.

Basic Qualifications

5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

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

5+ 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

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

Preferred Qualifications

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

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.