Security Platform SDE II: Scale Data & Automation

Twitch; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Twitch is seeking a Software Development Engineer II to design, build, and operate production services and tooling for the Security Platform. You’ll work across security, privacy, and data teams to power Twitch’s security posture at scale.

You’ll own projects end-to-end from design through deployment, partner across Twitch-wide initiatives, and drive reliability and observability for mission-critical systems. Strong coding, cloud, and collaboration skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Hands-on AWS: designing, deploying, and operating production services or pipelines, with IaC and safe rollout.
• 3+ years building and operating production backend services with end-to-end ownership (design, deploy, operate).
• 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.
• Full-stack experience ownership across backend APIs and frontend experiences.
• Experience working with large-scale event or log data, including event-driven architectures, asynchronous processing, or batch/streaming pipelines.
• 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 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.

Responsibilities

• Own projects end-to-end from design to production support.
• Design, build, and operate critical services, pipelines, and tooling for security platform.
• Collaborate with security, privacy, and infra teams on Twitch-wide initiatives.
• Drive observability, reliability, and operational readiness for critical systems.
• Contribute to design reviews and technical decision-making, including AI-assisted tooling.

Skills

Go

Java

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent

Tools

AWS

Job description

Twitch is seeking a Software Development Engineer II to design, build, and operate production services and tooling for the Security Platform. You’ll work across security, privacy, and data teams to power Twitch’s security posture at scale.

You’ll own projects end-to-end from design through deployment, partner across Twitch-wide initiatives, and drive reliability and observability for mission-critical systems. Strong coding, cloud, and collaboration skills are essential.