Software Engineer, Twitch
Machine Learning Infrastructure
$127.1-185k
+ Restricted stock units
Gaming-focused livestream platform
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Gaming-focused livestream platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$127.1-185k
+ Restricted stock units
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower live communities on the internet.
Role
Who you are
- 1+ Years experience developing software in a professional environment
- Knowledge of data structures and algorithm fundamentals
- Experience building, testing, and managing distributed services
- Excellent coding skills in modern languages and frameworks
- Experience with AWS technologies such as ECS, Sagemaker, Redshift, Batch, DynamoDB, Lambda, SQS, and Step Functions
- Minimum of Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
What the job involves
- Twitch connects millions of creators with millions of viewers. Our Machine Learning based recommendation and search systems power discovery products across Twitch and help users find content hyper-personalized for them
- Twitch is looking for a Software Engineer to join our Machine Learning Infrastructure team
- You will work with software engineers, applied scientists and product managers in our Models and Infrastructure group to build next-generation Machine Learning systems
- The engineering team is responsible for enabling reliable and efficient productionization of Twitch personalization models, including owning the software and data systems to develop, train and manage our real time and batch models at scal
- We own the ML platform and care about designing scalable and easy-to-use ML development environments and systems for our consumers
- Experimentation is our bread-and-butter and you will have hands-on experience building and launching model-based experiments to improve products
- Produce clean, high-quality, and well tested code
- Design and build scalable infrastructure to train, deploy and manage ML models
- Develop and automate software for ML workflows
- Optimize cost and performance of training and inference workloads
- Collaborate with Software Engineers, Applied Scientists, Data Scientists, and Product Managers
Our take
Twitch is the world's leading video platform for gamers, allowing users to livestream gaming sessions and curate a dedicated community for their content. By dedicating the platform to gaming alone, it has amassed a loyal following of fans, and been able to launch its Partner Program where streamers can monetize their livestreams, incorporate corporate partnerships, and even attend TwitchCon, a convention where dedicated gamers can socialize.
Twitch's acquisition by Amazon in 2014 saw its viewers double in a year, bringing the platform to a wider audience. However, with YouTube streaming popularity on the rise, it has big competition to contend with, as some popular streamers prefer going live on the video giant. Interestingly, a recent move by the platform was to enable its partner streamers to make live content on other platforms - previously inhibited by its exclusivity clause - which may combat the possibility of losing streamers permanently to YouTube.
In 2022, Twitch had to contend with backlash for its proposal to cut creator income by reducing their cut of subscription earnings. However, with the plan only affecting a minute number of creators, the controversy appears to have died down. Needless to say, Twitch is for now entirely comfortable in the market - with possible plans to extend past gaming bringing the chance to generate more popularity yet.
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Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Sep 2013
$20m
SERIES C
Sep 2012
$15m
SERIES B
Total funding: $43.2m
Company HQ
Belden Place, San Francisco, CA
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