Tools 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.

You are smart, self-driven, and get things done. People like working with you because you're responsive, love to work collaboratively, and care about best practices. You have worked on large-scale, highly available systems. You are a resourceful problem solver and know how to disagree without being disagreeable.

* Build a feature rich, continuous deployment pipeline * Works with tool users and other engineers to determine tool requirements, then drives the implementation, documentation, maintenance, and improvement of these tools * Participates in creating standard frameworks and libraries for internal tools * Regularly performs technical reviews of current tools to identify deficiencies * Regularly reviews new technologies for possible use by the team * Develops and communicates a clear vision of how products should function and the ability to lead peers to share and implement this vision

**Requirements** * 4+ years experience * Excellent command of at least one programming language * Excellent communicator and team player * Experience with SQL databases (Postgres preferred) * A strong desire to minimize the operational cost of systems, large and small * Experience building tools for scaling distributed, highly available systems * Experience orchestrating distributed systems * Ability to learn new languages (Go, Python) and technologies quickly * You know how to ship code in fast, iterative cycles **Bonus Points** * You know Go and have used it in production ready systems. * You’ve built brilliant APIs/interfaces that other programmers love to use. * Notable contributions to open source software projects. Send us a link to your contributions. * Worked in an Agile environment