Systems 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.

You will be responsible for the operations of the Twitch Live Video Network, including regular maintenance, expansion, troubleshooting, and reliability improvements. You will be part of the team to keep the heart and soul of Twitch smoothly humming 24x7, delivering exabits of video to our 10s of millions of users. You and your team will be expected to gain an in-depth understanding of how the systems work so that you can diagnose problems, and make safe and effective corrective action.

* Bare metal provisioning automation across dozens of data centers around the world * Ensuring correct operation of all systems that make up the video system * Driving work around ease of monitoring and reduction of operational overhead * Capacity planning and management * Triaging and responding to operational issues * Participation in an on-call rotation * Participation in technical architecture review around operations * Monitoring systems to anticipate and prevent problems * Participating in the change management process * Working closely with Software Engineering team to deep-dive complex issues * Wall-to-wall inventory to include Asset Management

**Requirements** * Bachelor’s degree in a technology related field (i.e. Computer Science) from an accredited college, or equivalent experience * Experience in a technical operations role (i.e. IT) * Must be customer focused * Requires an ability to function largely independently * Requires a deep understanding of Systems * Requires excellent verbal and written communication skills * Requires strong analytical and problem solving skills * Requires an understanding of Networks and Networking * Requires an understanding of Unix/Linux * Requires strong interpersonal skills **Bonus** * Experience with Nagios, or other monitoring systems * Experience with system provisioning * Programming/Scripting experience