Twitch

Software Development Engineer, Security Platform

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San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$144k - $224k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own and deliver software projects from design and implementation through deployment and production support.
  • Build and operate services, pipelines, and tooling 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 critical systems.
  • Contribute to design reviews, code reviews, technical decisions, and validation of AI-assisted output.
  • Lead technical projects spanning multiple services and parallel workstreams.
  • Participate in retrospectives and technical discussions while influencing decisions through technical leadership.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
  • At least 3 years of experience building and operating production backend services with end-to-end ownership.
  • Deep fluency in Go, Java, Python, or a similar modern programming language.
  • 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 decision-making skills.
  • Preferred experience with full-stack ownership across backend APIs and frontend experiences.
  • Preferred familiarity with security, data, privacy, authentication and authorization, vulnerability management, compliance workflows, and large-scale event or log data.
  • Preferred experience with event-driven architectures, asynchronous processing, batch or streaming pipelines, and AI-assisted development or analysis tools.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision, disability, prescription, life, and AD&D insurance options.
  • 401(k) matching.
  • Maternity, parental, and other family-related leave benefits.
  • Flexible paid time off.
  • Amazon employee discount.
  • Employee assistance, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
  • Work location is available in San Francisco, Irvine, or Seattle, with annual compensation varying by location.

Tech Stack

Categories

BackendData EngineeringSecurity
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1,001-5,000 employees

Twitch is where thousands of communities come together for whatever, every day. Together for streamers. Together for games we love. Together for each other.