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Senior Software Engineer

TwitchFull-time$110k - $270k*Cape Town, South AfricaOct 18, 2023

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About Us

Twitch is the world’s biggest live streaming service, with global communities built around gaming, entertainment, music, sports, cooking, and more. It is where thousands of communities come together for whatever, every day.

We’re about community, inside and out. You’ll find coworkers who are eager to team up, collaborate, and smash (or elegantly solve) problems together. We’re on a quest to empower live communities, so if this sounds good to you, see what we’re up to on LinkedIn and Twitter,  and discover the projects we’re solving on our Blog. Be sure to explore our Interviewing Guide and Instagram channel to learn how to ace our interview process.

About the Role

The IVS E2E team is responsible for delivering end-to-end experience for Amazon IVS customers globally while continuing to refine features that add business value and improve operational efficiency. 

We are looking for experienced and motivated backend engineers to join us. You should have experience building highly available and scalable rich applications. You will work closely with other engineers in our teams to design, build, deploy and operate highly available systems. 

We are looking for candidates who thrive in a fast-paced start-up-like environment and want to invent the future. You will have spent 8-10 years as a backend engineer building complex, distributed systems on the modern web.

You Will:

  • Design, implement and deploy new services and features 
  • Write quality code backed by automated unit and integration tests.
  • Own and operate the systems based on real-time customer data and demanding service-level agreements

You Have:

  • 10+ years of experience as a software engineer
  • Experienced in building and scaling distributed, highly available cloud-based systems
  • Experienced in Go, or possess the ability to learn new languages & technologies quickly
  • Experienced in owning and operating critical services 

Bonus Points

  • Experienced in using and building on AWS
  • WebRTC, Rust, Gstreamer experience
  • Start-up experience
  • Used GoLang in production-ready systems.

 

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Twitch. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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Job ID: TW8280

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