Software Development Engineer, Twitch
Security Platform
$143.7-223.6k
+ RSUs. Salary dependent on location
Gaming-focused livestream platform
Open for applications
Gaming-focused livestream platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$143.7-223.6k
+ RSUs. Salary dependent on location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower live communities on the internet.
Role
Who you are
- This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys working in ambiguous problem spaces, values operational excellence, enables peers, and wants to see their work directly improve Twitch's security posture at scale
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- 3+ years building and operating production backend services with end-to-end ownership (design, deploy, operate)
- Deep fluency in a modern language (Go, Java, Python, or similar)
- Hands-on AWS: designing, deploying, and operating production services or pipelines, with IaC and safe rollout
- Comfort driving clarity in ambiguous, evolving problem spaces
- A track record of leading technical projects that span multiple services and parallel workstreams
- Strong cross-team communication able to disagree with data and commit once decided
Desirable
- Full-stack experience ownership across backend APIs and frontend experiences
- Familiarity with security, data, and privacy systems, such as security or audit data lakes, cloud authentication and authorization flows, vulnerability scanning and remediation pipelines, and privacy or compliance-driven workflows (e.g., CCPA, GDPR-related controls)
- Experience working with large-scale event or log data, including event-driven architectures, asynchronous processing, or batch/streaming pipelines
- Experience integrating AI-assisted development or analysis tools into engineering workflows, such as using LLM-powered tooling, automation, or MCP-style platforms to improve developer productivity or system insight
- Familiarity with Twitch, either as a viewer or creator (or both!)
What the job involves
- Twitch Security Platform builds and operates the foundational software, data, and automation that enable security at scale across Twitch
- As a Software Development Engineer II (SDE II) on the Security Platform team, you will design, build, and operate critical services, pipelines, and tooling that power Twitch's security, privacy, and compliance programs
- In this role, you will work at the intersection of software, security, privacy, and data engineering, contributing production systems that handle large-scale security telemetry, automate security workflows, and provide reliable data and services to internal teams
- You will partner closely with engineers and product teams to solve real-world security problems through well-designed software
- You will own projects end-to-end from design and implementation through deployment and operational support for the systems that are business-critical and highly visible
- The problems you work on will span areas such as security data ingestion and processing, detection and response automation, service-to-service authentication, vulnerability management, and privacy engineering
- This is a broad platform charter, and priorities shift as the security landscape does; you should be energized by a wide surface area and comfortable moving fluidly between systems rather than anchored to a single one
- Own and deliver well-scoped software projects end-to-end, from design through production support
- Partner across Security, Identity, Privacy, and Infrastructure on Twitch-wide initiatives
- Drive operational excellence: observability, reliability, and operational readiness for critical systems
- Raise the engineering bar through design reviews, code reviews, clear technical decision-making and validation including AI-assisted output
- Participate in, retrospectives, and technical discussions, influencing decisions through technical leadership
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
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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