Network Development Engineer

Twitch is the world’s leading video platform and community for gamers, with more than 100 million visitors per month. We connect gamers from around the world by allowing them to broadcast, watch, and chat with each other. Twitch’s live and on-demand video platform forms the backbone of a distribution network for video game broadcasters including pro players, tournaments, leagues, developers and gaming media organizations.

* Responsible for all aspects of network support and operation * Manage a global backbone, including: traffic engineering, capacity planning, path diversity / fate sharing * Collaborate with fellow network engineers on design proposals and projects * Rotate through on-call support * Work closely with other engineering teams to leverage network intelligence, making other systems more efficient and responsive to network changes. * Create network diagrams and technical documentation * Creates independent tools to automate network tasks * Travel to domestic and international sites, if required

* You have 3+ years operating and managing networks * Excellent verbal and written communication skills * Intermediate knowledge / experience in a multi-vendor environment (Brocade, Arista, Juniper, Cisco, etc.) * Intermediate knowledge of peering and transit interconnection relationships * Intermediate knowledge of: BGP, OSPF, MPLS-TE, IPv4/IPv6, QoS, RIB/FIB, SNMP, SYSLOG, sFlow * Working knowledge of: 10/40/100GbE, fiber cabling, optical transceivers, server load balancing * Working knowledge of: WDM technologies, SDN concepts, and SQL databases * Experience using open source tools (BIRD, pmacct, Cacti, RANCID, etc.) * Comfortable working in Linux, with a basic understanding of shell scripting * Ability to code in a relevant language * Advanced level certification (CCNP, JNCIP, or equivalent)