Software Engineer I, Builder

Software Engineer Role In The Builder Frameworks Team

Care deeply about the developer experience? Like building platforms and tools, tackling hard technical challenges, and ultimately enabling video content creators to earn a living doing what they love? Do you have a passion for internal tools, libraries and setting direction for an entire company? If so, you'd be a great fit for the Software Engineer role in the Builder Frameworks team. We're looking for a backend engineer to help us ship performant, high-quality, and delightful products.

Our goal is to improve the productivity and effectiveness of every engineer and leader at Twitch. Through a lens of pure customer obsession, we create a variety of internal products, services, tools and libraries which address important areas such as availability and latency. As an engineer on our team, you will contribute your ideas, own your part, and always keep our users first in mind.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA.

You Will:

• Build new and support existing tools shared across Twitch to make software better
• Develop tools and automation to ease the setup and maintenance of services
• Participate in setting a company wide vision for software development
• Act as a mentor to other engineers in the company as an expert in tools
• Level up our team by contributing to company-wide software architecture and design

Perks

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

Basic Qualifications

• Knowledge of AWS services
• 1+ years of experience writing quality software in Go or Typescript
• Understanding of deployment tools and the software that makes software work
• A desire to constantly make things better

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of Go's ecosystem
• Experience working with GraphQL
• Experience debugging complicated production software
• Experience with asynchronous services
• Experience working with distributed teams

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

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company's reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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