3 months ago
Irvine, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$144k - $224k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and deliver well-scoped software projects from design through production support.
- Design, build, and operate critical backend services, security data pipelines, and automation.
- Address security data ingestion and processing, detection and response automation, service-to-service authentication, vulnerability management, and privacy engineering problems.
- 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 decision-making, validation, 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.
- 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 AWS experience designing, deploying, and operating production services or pipelines, including infrastructure as code and safe rollout practices.
- Ability to work through ambiguous and evolving problem spaces.
- Strong cross-team communication and data-driven technical decision-making.
- Preferred: full-stack experience 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) with matching.
- Flexible paid time off.
- Maternity, parental, adoption, and surrogacy reimbursement benefits.
- Amazon employee discount and additional employee support programs.
- Work location options in San Francisco, Irvine, or Seattle; compensation is listed annually 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.