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About the RoleTwitch 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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Skills Required
- 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
- Experience with AWS ecosystem (Lambda, EC2, RDS, Dynamo, CloudWatch)
- Experience with data pipelines (Kinesis, Airflow, Redshift, Spark)
- Experience with web development (React, TypeScript, Jest)
- Experience with mobile development (Android, iOS)
- Familiarity with the ad industry and ad measurement space
Twitch Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Twitch and has not been reviewed or approved by Twitch.
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Healthcare Strength — Employees access Amazon’s comprehensive medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, and mental‑health resources, with Twitch‑specific wellness support layered in. Official materials emphasize a competitive suite of health programs that start on day one for eligible roles.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Remote‑friendly norms include company holidays and global no‑meeting days, and policies commonly describe flexible or unlimited PTO. Paid parental leave is highlighted alongside other leave programs across the benefits overview.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity is a standard part of total rewards for many roles, with Amazon RSUs frequently referenced alongside base pay and bonus. Career materials and postings consistently note equity eligibility as part of the package.
Twitch Insights
What We Do
Twitch is the world’s biggest live streaming service, with global communities built around gaming, entertainment, music, sports, cooking, and a lot more. It’s a place where millions of people come together live every day to chat, interact, and make their own entertainment together.
Why Work With Us
We’re all about community, inside and out. Working here, you’ll find your coworkers are eager to team up, collaborate, and smash (or elegantly solve) problems together. We speak our own language (don’t worry, you’ll learn it), we have a club for everything, and we host an annual IRL party, TwitchCon, for our community of fans and creators.
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