Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure

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San Francisco, CA
In-Office
151K-262K Annually
Senior level
Gaming • Music • Social Media • Sports • Esports
Twitch is where millions of people come together live every day to chat, interact, and make their own entertainment.
The Role
Design, build, and maintain scalable data infrastructure in AWS, ensuring reliability and performance for analytics and machine learning use cases.
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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 Team

Our Video Team is the backbone of Twitch. Twitch processes a massive amount of live video channels and distributes them using the largest dedicated live video CDN in the world, delivering over 25Tbps to more than 5MM concurrent viewers. In addition to serving Twitch traffic, our video platform is offered as Amazon Interactive Video Service, an AWS service that allows the creation of a live video streaming platform with only a few lines of code. Engineers with our Video Team work across a range of areas including ingest, transcoding, and distribution with the lowest latency high-scale HLS distribution system in the world. 

About the Role

IVS is building the future of interactive video and we are seeking a Data Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and maintain the systems that power our data-driven organization. In this role, you will ensure that our data pipelines, storage, and processing systems are reliable, scalable, and optimized for analytics, machine learning, and business intelligence use cases. You will collaborate with data engineers, analysts, and software teams to create infrastructure that enables efficient and secure access to high-quality data.

You Will:
  • Design, implement, and maintain scalable data infrastructure in AWS cloud
  • Build and optimize data pipelines (batch and streaming) to support analytics, reporting, and ML workloads.
  • Ensure data quality, reliability, and observability through monitoring, logging, and automated alerting.
  • Work closely with data engineering and analytics teams to understand requirements and deliver high-performance solutions.
  • Champion best practices for security, compliance, and governance in data infrastructure.
  • Identify opportunities to optimize performance and cost of data platforms.
  • Stay current with emerging tools, frameworks, and cloud services in the data infrastructure ecosystem.
You Have:
  • 6+ years of experience in data engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering roles.
  • Strong hands-on expertise with cloud platforms
  • Proficiency in data pipeline tools (e.g., Airflow, dbt, AWS Glue, Flink).
  • Experience with data storage technologies (e.g., Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery, Delta Lake, Iceberg, Parquet).
  • Proficiency in GO, SQL, and Python for building and maintaining data systems.
  • Solid understanding of distributed systems and performance optimization.
Bonus Points
  • Experience with real-time data streaming and event-driven architectures.
  • Strong hands-on expertise with AWS cloud 
  • Background in observability and monitoring
  • Knowledge of data governance, security, and compliance best practices 
  • Prior experience supporting machine learning or advanced analytics environments.
Perks
  • Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Maternity & Parental Leave
  • Flexible PTO
  • Amazon Employee Discount

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.  

Job ID: TW8293

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from our lowest geographic market up to our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. This position will remain open until filled. For more information, please visit https://www.twitch.tv/jobs/en/#learn-more. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.


US Pay Per Year
$151,300$261,500 USD

Twitch is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Twitch values your privacy. Please consult our Candidate Privacy Notice, for information about how we collect, use, and disclose personal information of our candidates.

Top Skills

Airflow
AWS
Aws Glue
BigQuery
Dbt
Delta Lake
Flink
Go
Iceberg
Parquet
Python
Redshift
Snowflake
SQL
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The Company
Irvine, California
3,370 Employees
Year Founded: 2007

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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