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Twitch is the worlds 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.
Were about community inside and out. Youll find coworkers who are eager to team up collaborate and smash (or elegantly solve) problems together. Were on a quest to empower live communities so if this sounds good to you see what were up to on LinkedInandX and discover the projects were solving on ourBlog. Be sure to explore ourInterviewing Guideto learn how to ace our interview process.
About the Role
IVS is building the future of interactive video. IVSs Video Client Engineering team is looking for experienced mobile engineers to build a multi-platform broadcasting and playback system that works everywhere people want to create and consume video. We own the Real Time Broadcast and Video Player SDKs that power our customers live video experiences. As a software engineer in the Mobile Client SDK Team reporting to the Director of Client Engineering you will create and refine a media experience used by millions of users all over the world.
If you are passionate about mobile technology love media and streaming and want to take on new challenges then this position is for you.
You can work in San Francisco CA or Seattle WA.
You Will
- Develop our video playback/broadcast SDKs for desktop web and mobile web.
- Collaborate with backend video teams that support low-latency and real-time media broadcasting and playback
- Add reliable cross-platform unit integration and e2e tests
- Keep up to date on current technologies and recent developments in web and media technologies.
Perks
- Medical Dental Vision & Disability Insurance
- 401(k)
- Maternity & Parental Leave
- Flexible PTO
- Amazon Employee Discount
- 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5 years of leading design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team
- 5 years of professional software development or equivalent expertise.
- B.A. or B.S. in Computer Science or a related discipline or equivalent years of experience.
- Strong background in foundational web technologies and languages such as JavaScript TypeScript Webpack Node and NPM
- Familiarity with C or another similarly compiled language
- Experience building cross-platform libraries/SDKs and shipping successful software products.
- Experience with audio and video adaptive streaming on web platforms.
- Familiarity with video streaming technologies (HLS LL-HLS DASH) and codecs such as H.264 H.265 and AV1.
- Experience with network protocols like HTTP and TCP.
- Experience with Media Source APIs Encrypted Media Extensions and WebGPU.
- Experience with Mobile Web Development Living Room and WebViews.
- Comfort with performance tuning through experimentation and analysis.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Twitch is the worlds 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.
Were about community inside and out. Youll find coworkers who are eager to team up collaborate and smash (or elegantly solve) problems together. Were on a quest to empower live communities so if this sounds good to you see what were up to on LinkedInandX and discover the projects were solving on ourBlog. Be sure to explore ourInterviewing Guideto learn how to ace our interview process.
About the Role
IVS is building the future of interactive video. IVSs Video Client Engineering team is looking for experienced mobile engineers to build a multi-platform broadcasting and playback system that works everywhere people want to create and consume video. We own the Real Time Broadcast and Video Player SDKs that power our customers live video experiences. As a software engineer in the Mobile Client SDK Team reporting to the Director of Client Engineering you will create and refine a media experience used by millions of users all over the world.
If you are passionate about mobile technology love media and streaming and want to take on new challenges then this position is for you.
You can work in San Francisco CA or Seattle WA.
You Will
- Develop our video playback/broadcast SDKs for desktop web and mobile web.
- Collaborate with backend video teams that support low-latency and real-time media broadcasting and playback
- Add reliable cross-platform unit integration and e2e tests
- Keep up to date on current technologies and recent developments in web and media technologies.
Perks
- Medical Dental Vision & Disability Insurance
- 401(k)
- Maternity & Parental Leave
- Flexible PTO
- Amazon Employee Discount
- 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5 years of leading design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team
- 5 years of professional software development or equivalent expertise.
- B.A. or B.S. in Computer Science or a related discipline or equivalent years of experience.
- Strong background in foundational web technologies and languages such as JavaScript TypeScript Webpack Node and NPM
- Familiarity with C or another similarly compiled language
- Experience building cross-platform libraries/SDKs and shipping successful software products.
- Experience with audio and video adaptive streaming on web platforms.
- Familiarity with video streaming technologies (HLS LL-HLS DASH) and codecs such as H.264 H.265 and AV1.
- Experience with network protocols like HTTP and TCP.
- Experience with Media Source APIs Encrypted Media Extensions and WebGPU.
- Experience with Mobile Web Development Living Room and WebViews.
- Comfort with performance tuning through experimentation and analysis.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Spring
- .NET
- C/C++
- Go
- React
- OOP
- C#
- AWS
- Data Structures
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
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