Senior Product Manager, Platform Core Engineering
Irvine, CA - USA
Job Summary
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.
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About the Role
Platform Core Engineering (PCE) builds the foundational systems frameworks and tooling that Twitchs engineers build on every day. As a Senior Product Manager on PCE your customers are developers and your success depends on earning their trust. You will own a platform product area and be measured on whether developers actually adopt rely on and advocate for what you ship.
This is a deeply technical senior individual-contributor role. You are expected to be hands-on with modern AI development tools to understand the technology you are shaping at a real level (not just at the surface) and to hold credibility in a room full of engineers.
You can be based out of one of the Twitch offices including San Francisco Seattle Los Angeles Irvine or New York City.
You Will
- Own the strategy and roadmap for a PCE platform area balancing near-term developer needs with a 1 to 2 year technical vision.
- Treat developers as your customers: understand their workflows earn their trust and prioritize the capabilities that make them faster and more effective.
- Work directly with Senior Engineering Managers and Principal Engineers to define technical and organizational needs and build a cohesive platform ecosystem.
- Define and drive the platform metrics that matter.
- Drive alignment across dependent teams resolve competing priorities and communicate technical tradeoffs.
- Own launches end-to-end including migration paths documentation and adoption so capabilities land and stick.
- Partner with tooling customers across engineering ML infrastructure MLOps and data science to ensure the platform serves every developer persona.
- Champion hands-on use of modern AI development tools setting the bar for how the org builds with agents MCPs and context tooling.
Perks
* Medical Dental Vision & Disability Insurance
* 401(k)
* Maternity & Parental Leave
* Flexible PTO
* Amazon Employee Discount
- 5 years of technical product or program management experience
- Hands-on fluency with modern AI development tools and a habit of building with them.
- A working understanding of how modern AI tools work and fit together (agents MCPs context and tooling) and why they matter for developer products.
- A track record building developer-facing or platform products where earning and keeping developer trust was the difference between adoption and failure.
- Strong analytical skills and strong written and verbal communication with precise articulation of technical customer problems and tradeoffs.
- Demonstrated ability to operate independently and navigate ambiguity.
- Experience building or supporting AI Developer Infrastructure ML infrastructure MLOps or data and analytics tooling.
- Background in software engineering or a related technical field (you have written and shipped code).
- Familiarity with AWS and other builder frameworks shared services APIs and platforms.
- Familiarity with streaming and Twitchs ecosystem.
- Proficiency with data-driven decision making and defining platform adoption metrics.
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 - 151200.00 - 204600.00 USD annually
USA CA San Francisco - 173900.00 - 235200.00 USD annually
USA NY New York - 166300.00 - 225000.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 151200.00 - 204600.00 USD annually
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