Software Development Engineer, Twitch

• The ideal candidate thrives in a collaborative fast paced environment, takes initiative, and proactively seeks opportunities to grow their skills and knowledge
• If you are a self-starter who is naturally curious and eager to learn, we'd love to hear from you!
• 1-2 years of experience building distributed, low-latency, high availability applications
• A degree in Computer Science, a related Engineering discipline, or equivalent experience
• Have experience developing with static-typed languages. We work mostly in Go, and while experience as a Go developer isn’t required (you can learn it pretty quickly), we do believe being good at types is an important qualification.Enjoy building intuitive APIs for developers
• Write high quality code that’s easy to read and understand

Desirable

• The API Platform team builds high-traffic, internet-facing services that power Twitch web sites, mobile clients and our third party developer community
• Our GraphQL edge service is one of the biggest in the industry based on performance, throughput, and sheer number of downstream services it connects
• The team owns the internal and external messaging platforms that power real-time capabilities on our website, native apps and third-party apps like StreamElements and StreamLabs
• We handle billions of notifications per day
• We’re looking for people with a strong interest in building and architecting scalable, low latency and fault tolerant APIs
• As a software engineer on the API platform team, you will help develop, maintain and innovate around our first party GraphQL APIs and real-time platforms while working with multiple product teams to deliver great experience and content to our streamers and viewers communities
• You'll shape the work of your peers, and be an integral part of our engineering team, reporting to our Engineering Manager for API Development
• Work with the product leaders to build and release new features to empower Twitch
• Work on high throughput, low latency edge services
• Contribute to architectural, design, and process discussions involving the technological choices involved in building Twitch’s GraphQL API and real-time platforms
• Design and deliver robust real-time messaging features that enable seamless service notifications
• You’ll identify and uphold engineering best practices