Software Engineer II

About Us

Twitch is the world’s biggest live streaming service, with global communities built around gaming, entertainment, music, sports, cooking, and more. It’s where millions of people come together to chat, interact, and make their own entertainment. 

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, get interviewing tips on Instagram, and discover projects we’re solving on our Blog.

About the Role

The Community Spirit team’s expertise is in detecting behaviours in language. We operate on all of the user generated text on Twitch, with a major focus being the live chat in streams. The team produces a variety of language models that detect things like hate speech, sexual content, bullying, etc. as well as more serious types of harms. We work closely with our partners on the Customer Trust team to ensure users have a safe and satisfying experience while using Twitch.

You Will:

• Design, build, and maintain performant, reliable natural language processing/understanding services and applications
• Produce clean, high-quality code, tests, and documentation
• Actively contribute to code and design reviews with peers and partners
• Work across teams and organisations to deliver value to our creators and viewers

You Have:

• A degree in Computer Science, a related Engineering discipline, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience building natural language processing/understanding applications at scale
• Ability to apply quantitative reasoning and UX design principles to building applications
• Sound technical judgement and a bias for action

Bonus Points

• Experience or familiarity with the AWS ecosystem of services (EC2, ECS, Dynamo, CDK, etc)
• Experience or familiarity building with GraphQL APIs
• Experience writing Go in production-ready systems
• Experience with rapid prototyping of NLP/NLU systems in Python

Perks

• Private Medical Insurance
• Dental, Vision & Life Insurance
• Pension Plan
• Maternity & Parental Leave
• Paid Time Off & Holidays
• Commuter Benefits
• Amazon Employee Discount
• Monthly Contribution & Discounts for Wellness Related Activities & Programs (e.g., gym memberships, etc.)
• Lunch Served Four Times a Week
• Free Snacks & Beverages

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: TW8086