Senior Engineering Manager, Twitch
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$148-287.7k
Gaming-focused livestream platform
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Gaming-focused livestream platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$148-287.7k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower live communities on the internet.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience with web services, cloud infrastructure, and system design
- 2+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager
- Skills to hire and develop top engineering talent
- Experience communicating complex problems or situations with simple concepts
- Willingness to accept feedback from teammates
- Comfort when operating within an ambiguous and Agile environment
- History leading teams to design, implement and operate consumer-facing applications
Desirable
- Experience as a Sr. Engineer designing, implementing and operating distributed applications
- Familiarity with Twitch, either as a viewer or creator (or both!)
What the job involves
- As an Engineering Leader reporting directly to the Director of Engineering, you will lead people to build products, features, and experiences that promote incorporating Ads authentically into the streaming experience
- You will be empowered to work across the stack and throughout the company. You will take high ownership of your services - building and operating them
- You will partner with other engineering leaders, product managers, designers, data specialists and program managers to create solutions
- Lead a team of engineers to design, build and operate full stack consumer-facing applications
- Establish a clear vision for your team and produce clarity and urgency
- Use data to make decisions; particularly when it comes to operational health and quality
- Hire and coach people; you articulate behaviors and impacts that can grow careers
- Dissect trade offs and lead teams to make conscious choices
- Parse, ingest, challenge and reframe proposals / plans for the better and in a constructive way
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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