Software Engineer II, Twitch
Amazon
Description
Twitch is the world’s 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.
IVS is building the future of interactive video. The Video Server Platform Network Traffic Management (NTM) team is seeking an experienced back end distributed systems developer to lead the design and development of our next generation video distribution system. This role focuses on building systems that manage traffic delivery across multiple CDNs (Content Delivery Networks).
If you’re excited by the idea of building back end services that operate at a worldwide scale, and have an interest in live video, this is the position for you.
Key job responsibilities
- Build features enabling the next generation of the Twitch Video Distribution system.
- Implement the systems which shape traffic across multiple CDNs, including our own custom live video specialized CDN
- Build robust, operable, and maintainable distributed software systems
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to junior members of the team
About the team
We’re about community, inside and out. You’ll find coworkers who are eager to team up, collaborate, and smash (or elegantly solve) problems together. We’re on a quest to empower live communities, so if this sounds good to you, see what we’re up to on LinkedIn and X, and discover the projects we’re solving on our Blog. Be sure to explore our Interviewing Guide to learn how to ace our interview process.