Senior Software 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.

Our technical stack is vast and our hardware deployments are far reaching to all corners of the globe. We leverage Go and Ruby throughout our stack. We utilize PostgreSQL and many NoSQL variants such as DynamoDB, Cassandra, Redis and ElasticSearch. Our scale and speed of our growth forces us to experiment with techniques and technologies. We are looking for the next set of engineering tech leaders to help grow Twitch to the next level. We need strong senior tech leaders that are comfortable working cross-functionally and not be afraid to touch many portions of our code-base to ensure that Twitch services can scale and be robust. We are moving to an SOA world and we need people comfortable with balancing product innovation with building out robust systems.

* Design, build, and maintain scalable and robust services * Lead wide product or technical initiatives working with multiple engineering and product groups * Level-up the organization around you through better code reviews and engineering best practices * Participate in design and architecture sessions with other senior technical leads

* A degree in Computer Science, or equivalent industry experience. * Extensive development experience as a software engineer working on building large scalable systems using SOA/microservices * 5+ years of development experience as a software engineer working on customer-facing systems * Full stack-experience and a solid understanding of how to debug problems from UI down to systems * Good understanding of distributed systems, data stores, data modeling, indexing and associated trade-offs * Experience developing APIs and SDKs a plus * Passion about video games are a big plus