Senior Software Engineer, Ads — Scale a Global Ad Platform

Twitch; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 168,100 - 227,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance

401(k)

Maternity & Parental Leave

Flexible PTO

Amazon Employee Discount

Job summary

Twitch is looking for a Senior Engineer to contribute to our advertising platform in Seattle. You will develop and scale new services, refine our technical strategy, and mentor fellow engineers. With your expertise in languages like Go, Java, or Python, you will help shape our approach and impact the success of creators.

This position offers a competitive salary ranging from $168,100 to $227,400 annually, alongside excellent benefits including medical insurance, 401(k), and flexible PTO.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field.
• 5+ years experience in Go, Java, Python, C++, or similar languages.
• 5+ years experience developing and operating low-latency distributed services, and/or high-volume data processing workflows.
• Experience refining technical strategy and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities

• Develop and operate new product features on native AWS infrastructure.
• Scale and improve existing services powering the Twitch advertising platform.
• Improve engineering processes to increase team effectiveness.
• Mentor and cultivate the growth of the engineers around you.
• Contribute to overall team and organization technical strategy and architecture design.
• Work across teams, organizations, and third parties to provide value to our customers.

Skills

Go

Java

Python

C++

Low-latency distributed services

High-volume data processing workflows

Technical strategy refinement

Mentoring engineers

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS (Lambda, EC2, RDS, Dynamo, CloudWatch)

Data pipelines (Kinesis, Airflow, Redshift, Spark)

Web development (React, TypeScript, Jest)

Mobile development (Android, iOS)

Job description

Twitch is looking for a Senior Engineer to contribute to our advertising platform in Seattle. You will develop and scale new services, refine our technical strategy, and mentor fellow engineers. With your expertise in languages like Go, Java, or Python, you will help shape our approach and impact the success of creators.

This position offers a competitive salary ranging from $168,100 to $227,400 annually, alongside excellent benefits including medical insurance, 401(k), and flexible PTO.