Twitch

Senior Software Engineer, Ads

Twitch$168K — $227K *
Media
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field
  • 5+ years experience in programming languages like Go, Java, Python, or C++
  • 5+ years experience in low-latency distributed services and high-volume data processing
  • Experience in refining technical strategy and mentoring engineers

Responsibilities

  • Develop and operate new product features on native AWS infrastructure
  • Scale and improve existing services for the Twitch advertising platform
  • Enhance engineering processes to increase team effectiveness
  • Mentor engineers and support their professional growth
  • Contribute to the technical strategy and architecture design
  • Collaborate across teams and organizations for customer value

Benefits

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

US, WA, Seattle - Annually

$168,100-$227,400 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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