Join Twitch as a Senior Software Engineer to develop scalable services for our advertising platform and mentor fellow engineers.
Skills & Technologies
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Senior Software Engineer will focus on developing and enhancing advertising features on Twitch's AWS infrastructure, ensuring scalability and efficiency. Proficiency in languages like Go, Java, or Python, along with experience in low-latency distributed services, is essential for success. This position is ideal for seasoned engineers who have a strong background in technical strategy and mentoring. The team is dedicated to creating impactful solutions that benefit both creators and advertisers in the dynamic live-streaming landscape.
Joblaze insights
- Listed today on Joblaze — tracked directly from Twitch's career page.
- Twitch has 66 other open roles including Customer Experience Specialist, Customer Experience Specialist, Business Intelligence Manager.
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- 1240 active AWS roles on Joblaze right now.
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- Salary band is in line with the typical range for Backend roles (median ~$166,000).
Quick facts
- What's the salary range?
- Twitch lists $168,100–$227,400 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Senior Software Engineer, Ads role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: TypeScript, C++, Android, CloudWatch, AWS, Spark.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Twitch targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Software Engineer, Ads role at Twitch.
From the original posting
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
Twitch enables content creators to live-stream content to their communities across the globe. Advertising is a core part of Twitch's business model, and spans across many product areas. We take pride in our mission to help creators earn a living by entertaining and educating their viewers. You'll be part of a passionate and customer-obsessed team working to prove Twitch is the best advertising platform for creators and advertisers alike.
Twitch is looking for versatile engineers with the curiosity and creativity to develop massively scalable services, integrations, and data processing pipelines that support our advertising business. As a senior engineer, you should be comfortable contributing to technical strategy, architecture design, and engineering excellence at the team and organization levels. You will work with engineers, product managers, and program managers to build products that delight our customers.
As the leader in live-streaming, Twitch is home to unique opportunities and challenges in the advertising space. If you're excited about joining our team and having an outsized impact on Twitch and its creators, come work with us!
You Will:
- Develop and operate new product features on native AWS infrastructure
- Scale and improve existing services used to power the Twitch advertising platform
- Improve engineering processes to increase team effectiveness
- Mentor and cultivate the growth of the engineers around you
- Contribute to overall team and organization technical strategy and architecture design
- Work across teams, organizations, and third parties to provide value to our customers
You Have:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field
- 5+ years experience in Go, Java, Python, C++, or similar languages
- 5+ years experience developing and operating low-latency distributed services, and/or high-volume data processing workflows
- Experience refining technical strategy and mentoring engineers
Bonus Points
- Experience with the AWS ecosystem of services (Lambda, EC2, RDS, Dynamo, or CloudWatch)
- Experience with data pipelines (Kinesis, Airflow, Redshift, or Spark)
- Experience with web development (React, TypeScript, Jest)
- Experience with mobile development (Android, iOS)
- Familiarity with the ad industry and ad measurement space
Perks
- Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance
- 401(k)
- Maternity & Parental Leave
- Flexible PTO
- Amazon Employee Discount
Job ID: TW9218
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
Twitch is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
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