Twitch

Senior Product Manager, Platform Core Engineering

Twitch$166K — $225K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of product management experience with a strong technical foundation
  • Hands-on fluency with modern AI development tools
  • Understanding of AI tools (agents, MCPs, context, tooling) and their relevance for developers
  • Proven track record in building developer-facing products focusing on trust and adoption
  • Strong analytical, written, and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to operate independently and navigate ambiguity

Responsibilities

  • Own the strategy and roadmap for a PCE platform area
  • Understand developer workflows and prioritize capabilities that enhance their effectiveness
  • Collaborate with senior engineering leaders to define technical needs and build a cohesive ecosystem
  • Define and drive key platform metrics
  • Align dependent teams and communicate technical tradeoffs
  • Oversee launches end-to-end, ensuring adoption and documentation
  • Partner with various engineering teams to meet diverse developer needs
  • Promote the use of modern AI development tools across the organization

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Maternity & Parental Leave
  • Flexible PTO
  • Amazon Employee Discount
Full Job Description
About the Role

Platform Core Engineering (PCE) builds the foundational systems, frameworks, and tooling that Twitch's engineers build on every day. As a Senior Product Manager on PCE, your customers are developers, and your success depends on earning their trust. You will own a platform product area and be measured on whether developers actually adopt, rely on, and advocate for what you ship.

This is a deeply technical, senior individual-contributor role. You are expected to be hands-on with modern AI development tools, to understand the technology you are shaping at a real level (not just at the surface), and to hold credibility in a room full of engineers.

You can be based out of one of the Twitch offices including San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, Irvine, or New York City.
You Will:
  • Own the strategy and roadmap for a PCE platform area, balancing near-term developer needs with a 1 to 2 year technical vision.
  • Treat developers as your customers: understand their workflows, earn their trust, and prioritize the capabilities that make them faster and more effective.
  • Work directly with Senior Engineering Managers and Principal Engineers to define technical and organizational needs and build a cohesive platform ecosystem.
  • Define and drive the platform metrics that matter.
  • Drive alignment across dependent teams, resolve competing priorities, and communicate technical tradeoffs.
  • Own launches end-to-end, including migration paths, documentation, and adoption, so capabilities land and stick.
  • Partner with tooling customers across engineering, ML infrastructure, MLOps, and data science to ensure the platform serves every developer persona.
  • Champion hands-on use of modern AI development tools, setting the bar for how the org builds with agents, MCPs, and context tooling.
You Have:
  • 5+ years of product management experience, with a strong technical foundation.
  • Hands-on fluency with modern AI development tools and a habit of building with them.
  • A working understanding of how modern AI tools work and fit together (agents, MCPs, context, and tooling) and why they matter for developer products.
  • A track record building developer-facing or platform products where earning and keeping developer trust was the difference between adoption and failure.
  • Strong analytical skills and strong written and verbal communication, with precise articulation of technical customer problems and tradeoffs.
  • Demonstrated ability to operate independently and navigate ambiguity.
Bonus Points
  • Experience building or supporting AI Developer Infrastructure, ML infrastructure, MLOps, or data and analytics tooling.
  • Background in software engineering or a related technical field (you have written and shipped code).
  • Familiarity with AWS and other builder frameworks, shared services, APIs, and platforms.
  • Familiarity with streaming and Twitch's ecosystem.
  • Proficiency with data-driven decision making and defining platform adoption metrics.
Perks
  • Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Maternity & Parental Leave
  • Flexible PTO
  • Amazon Employee Discount


Job ID: TW9241

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.

US, WA, Seattle - Annually

$151,200-$204,600 USD

US, CA, San Francisco - Annually

$173,900-$235,200 USD

US, NY, New York - Annually

$166,300-$225,000 USD

US, CA, Irvine - Annually

$151,200-$204,600 USD

About Twitch

Twitch is an American video live streaming service that focuses on video game live streaming, including broadcasts of esports competitions, in addition to offering music broadcasts, creative content, and "in real life" streams. It is operated by Twitch Interactive, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. It was introduced in June 2011 as a spin-off of the general-interest streaming platform Justin.tv. Content on the site can be viewed either live or via video on demand. The popularity of Twitch eclipsed that of its general-interest counterpart. In October 2013, the website had 45 million unique viewers, and by February 2014, it was considered the fourth-largest source of peak Internet traffic in the United States. At the same time, Justin.tv's parent company was re-branded as Twitch Interactive to represent the shift in focus – Justin.tv was shut down in August 2014. That month, the service was acquired by Amazon for US$970 million, which later led to the introduction of synergies with the company's subscription service Amazon Prime. Twitch acquired Curse in 2016, an operator of online video gaming communities and introduced means to purchase games through links on streams along with a program allowing streamers to receive commissions on the sales of games that they play.
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