Senior Software Engineer, Twitch

• B.A. or B.S. in Computer Science or a related discipline, or equivalent years of experience
• 6+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 6+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 6+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Expertise in client and server-side software engineering in production environments
• Experience optimizing multitenant, complex end-to-end systems including performance optimization at the component level
• Worked directly with customers in an enterprise B2B software environment
• Previous experience leading cross-team, cross-org technical media programs or features
• Strong familiarity with adaptive video streaming technologies (HLS, LL-HLS, DASH) and codecs such as H.264, H.265, and AV1

Desirable

• The Media Technology Engineering team is a center of excellence for streaming media processing (transmuxing, transcoding), codec technologies (H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC, AV1), media formats (HLS, TS, FMP4), network protocols (E-RTMP, SRT, WebRTC), and media quality analysis (VMAF, PSNR)
• We design, deliver, and maintain core native software libraries that power production services across the organization
• As a cross-functional organization, we develop across many internal production services and collaborate closely with many teams to enable efficient and fast delivery of new media features
• Design, develop, and maintain server-side processing software in C/C++, Rust, and Golang
• Perform codec implementation comparison studies and dive deep into media quality
• Iterate on metric and alarms to improve operational reliability
• Leverage data and experiments to guide media features from concept to production