Senior Engineering Manager, Twitch
Security Platform
$184.9-287.7k
Salary varies depending on location. Offers RSUs
Gaming-focused livestream platform
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Gaming-focused livestream platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$184.9-287.7k
Salary varies depending on location. Offers RSUs
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower live communities on the internet.
Role
Who you are
- You are experienced in software and data engineering, you bring awareness of the industry's cutting edge, and you're passionate about security. If this sounds accurate, come join us!
- 7+ years of professional software development
- 3+ years as an engineering manager or team lead
- Knowledge of AWS services, open source technologies, and ETL tools and data warehousing solutions
- Experience hiring and developing remote engineers under your guidance
- Experience gathering feedback from customers to inform engineering prioritization
- Experience in leading an AI-first engineering team
Desirable
- B.S. or M.S. in computer science, software engineering, or a related, technical discipline
- You have made petabytes of data quick and easy to work with
- Experience using and managing Amazon Web Service (AWS) services
- Familiarity with Twitch, either as a viewer or creator (or both!)
What the job involves
- Twitch Security Platform builds and operates the technology at the intersection of security, privacy, software engineering, and data engineering
- As a Senior Engineering Manager, Security Platform, you will guide a diverse group of software engineers to build critical tools and automation solutions used across Twitch
- You will report to the Director of Security, Identity, and Privacy Platforms
- You will manage engineers responsible for operating our security data platform handling billions of weekly events, a multi-petabyte data lake, and numerous analysis tools that provide critical data across the organization to support important security programs
- You will also lead engineers responsible for writing software to accomplish security at scale through automation, libraries, and services
- With this team, you will lead the full software development lifecycle from product discovery, roadmap prioritization, and execution
- Programs you support will include Fraud, Service-to-Service Auth, Detection and Incident Response, Vulnerability Management, Engineering Intelligence, and Privacy
- Encourage others to do excellent work through your leadership
- Attract, grow, and retain excellent software engineers
- Oversee the design, development, and deployment of scalable tooling and automation
- Work with teams from across the company on Twitch-wide programs
- Extend, scale, and redefine the Twitch Security Platform
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.
Steph
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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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