2 months ago
Base Salary
$144k - $224k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and deliver software projects end-to-end from design and implementation through deployment and production support.
- Build and operate critical security services, data pipelines, and automation for security, privacy, and compliance programs.
- Partner with Security, Identity, Privacy, Infrastructure, engineering, and product teams on Twitch-wide initiatives.
- Drive observability, reliability, and operational readiness for business-critical systems.
- Contribute to design reviews, code reviews, technical decisions, retrospectives, and technical discussions.
- Lead technical projects spanning multiple services and parallel workstreams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- 3+ years of experience building and operating production backend services with end-to-end ownership.
- Deep fluency in a modern programming language such as Go, Java, or Python.
- Hands-on experience designing, deploying, and operating production services or pipelines on AWS, including infrastructure as code and safe rollout practices.
- Ability to work effectively in ambiguous and evolving problem spaces.
- Strong cross-team communication and data-driven technical decision-making.
- Preferred experience with full-stack development, security, data, privacy, authentication and authorization, vulnerability management, compliance workflows, large-scale event or log data, event-driven architectures, asynchronous processing, batch or streaming pipelines, and AI-assisted engineering tools.
- Familiarity with Twitch as a viewer or creator is a bonus.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, disability, prescription, life, and AD&D insurance options.
- 401(k) matching.
- Flexible PTO and paid time off.
- Maternity, parental, adoption, and surrogacy reimbursement benefits.
- Employee assistance, mental health support, medical advice line, and flexible spending accounts.
- Amazon employee discount.
- Work location options are San Francisco, Irvine, or Seattle, with annual compensation varying by location.
About Twitch
Twitch builds a live video streaming platform and tools for creators and viewers focused on gaming, music, and other interactive entertainment. It monetizes through advertising, channel subscriptions, Bits/cheers, and partnerships, and offers APIs and extensions for developers. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, Twitch was acquired by Amazon in 2014 and operates globally.