If you are interested in this position, please apply on Twitch's Career site https://www.twitch.tv/jobs/en/

About Us:

Twitch is the world's biggest live streaming service, with global communities built around gaming, entertainment, music, sports, cooking, and more. It's where millions of people come together to chat, interact, and make their own entertainment.

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 Twitter, get interviewing tips on Instagram, and discover projects we're solving on our Blog.

About the Role:

Twitch is building the future of interactive entertainment. As an engineer on the Video-on-demand (VOD) and Clips team, you will build and scale systems that underpin all of Twitch's non-live video streaming products.. Because we operate at the core of the Twitch experience, you'll work closely with teams across Twitch to advise, partner, and build new and exciting uses for on demand content within the Twitch ecosystem.

We are looking for an experienced and motivated back-end engineer to join our team. You should have experience building highly available and scalable applications. You will work closely with other engineers in our team to design, build, deploy and operate highly available systems.

You Will:

- Develop, deliver, and operate new product services and features on native AWS infrastructure

- Scale and improve existing APIs and services used to power the Twitch video and clips platforms

- Contribute to overall team technical strategy and architecture design

- Mentor and cultivate the growth of the engineers around you

- Build tools and monitoring systems to ensure we sustain the service's consistent high availability and low error rates

Perks

- Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance

- 401(k)

- Maternity & Parental Leave

- Flexible PTO

- Amazon Employee Discount

- Monthly Contribution & Discounts for Wellness Related Activities & Programs (e.g., gym memberships, off-site massages, etc.)

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Seattle, WA, USA

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- A degree in Computer Science, a related Engineering discipline, or equivalent experience

- 5+ Years Industry Experience

- Experience ramping up on existing, large, high-throughput applications and quickly making an impact

- Experience developing with static-typed languages.

- Experience with large data stores (DynamoDB, Cassandra)

- Managed infrastructure projects

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Know Go and have used it in production ready systems

- Experienced in using and building on AWS

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Twitch. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, or other legally protected status.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $115,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in 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. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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