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About the Role:
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 youd be a great fit for the Software Engineer role in the Builder Frameworks team. Were 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
- 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
- Knowledge of Gos 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 Companys 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.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $99500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $185000/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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.