Software Development Engineer, Security Platform

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About the Role

Twitch Security Platform builds and operates the foundational software data and automation that enable security at scale across Twitch. As a Software Development Engineer II (SDE II) on the Security Platform team you will design build and operate critical services pipelines and tooling that power Twitchs security privacy and compliance programs.

In this role you will work at the intersection of software security privacy and data engineering contributing production systems that handle large-scale security telemetry automate security workflows and provide reliable data and services to internal teams. You will partner closely with engineers and product teams to solve real-world security problems through well-designed software.

You will own projects end-to-end from design and implementation through deployment and on-call supportand operate systems that are business-critical and highly visible. The problems you work on will span areas such as security data ingestion and processing detection and response automation service to service authentication vulnerability management and privacy engineering.

This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys working in ambiguous problem spaces values operational excellence enables peers and wants to see their work directly improve Twitchs security posture at scale.

You can work from San Francisco CA; Irvine CA; or Seattle WA.

You Will

- Own and deliver well-scoped software projects end-to-end from design through production support.
- Partner with engineers across Security Identity Privacy and Infrastructure on Twitch-wide initiatives.
- Contribute to evolving and scaling authentication security and privacy systems balancing security reliability and user experience.
- Drive operational excellence by improving observability reliability and on-call readiness for critical security and identity systems.
- Participate in design reviews retrospectives and technical discussions influencing decisions through strong technical leadership.
- Raise the quality bar through thoughtful code reviews documentation and maintainable system design.

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

About the team
Your day will involve collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams designing scalable security solutions and implementing innovative approaches to protect our platform. Youll dive deep into security data processing authentication mechanisms and privacy engineering challenges that require creative problem-solving and technical excellence.

- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering a related field or equivalent experience
- 3 years of experience building and operating production Go services and full-stack applications with ownership across backend APIs frontend experiences and the operational lifecycle of critical systems.
- Hands-on experience designing deploying and operating production services or data pipelines on AWS including major AWS-native services infrastructure-as-code environment configuration and safe rollout practices.
- Experience working in ambiguous technical problem spaces where requirements are incomplete or evolving and driving clarity by proposing designs validating assumptions and collaborating across security infrastructure and application teams.
- Exposure to security data and privacy concepts relevant to platform engineering such as authentication and authorization security telemetry or logging vulnerability scanning or remediation workflows and basic privacy or compliance considerations.

- Familiarity with security data and privacy systems such as security or audit data lakes cloud authentication and authorization flows vulnerability scanning and remediation pipelines and privacy or compliance-driven workflows (e.g. GDPR-related controls).
- Experience working with large-scale event or log data including event-driven architectures asynchronous processing or batch/streaming pipelines used for monitoring analytics or security use cases.
- Demonstrated experience improving operational excellence such as adding metrics dashboards alarms run-books or automated remediation to increase reliability and reduce on-call load.
- Experience integrating AI-assisted development or analysis tools into engineering workflows such as using LLM-powered tooling automation or MCP-style platforms to improve developer productivity or system insight.

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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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at CA Irvine - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually
USA CA San Francisco - 165200.00 - 223600.00 USD annually
USA WA SEATTLE - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually