Software Development Engineer (Security Platform)

Twitch; Irvine (CA); 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 Security Platform builds and operates the foundational software, data, and automation that enable security at scale across Twitch
• As a Software Development Engineer II (SDE II) on the Security Platform team, you will design, build, and operate critical services, pipelines, and tooling that power Twitch’s security, privacy, and compliance programs
• In this role, you will work at the intersection of software, security, privacy, and data engineering, contributing production systems that handle large-scale security telemetry, automate security workflows, and provide reliable data and services to internal teams
• You will partner closely with engineers and product teams to solve real-world security problems through well-designed software
• You will own projects end-to-end from design and implementation through deployment and operational support for the systems that are business-critical and highly visible
• The problems you work on will span areas such as security data ingestion and processing, detection and response automation, service-to-service authentication, vulnerability management, and privacy engineering
• This is a broad platform charter, and priorities shift as the security landscape does; you should be energized by a wide surface area and comfortable moving fluidly between systems rather than anchored to a single one
• Own and deliver well-scoped software projects end-to-end, from design through production support
• Partner across Security, Identity, Privacy, and Infrastructure on Twitch-wide initiatives
• Drive operational excellence: observability, reliability, and operational readiness for critical systems
• Raise the engineering bar through design reviews, code reviews, clear technical decision-making and validation including AI-assisted output
• Participate in, retrospectives, and technical discussions, influencing decisions through technical leadership

This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys working in ambiguous problem spaces, values operational excellence, enables peers, and wants to see their work directly improve Twitch’s security posture at scaleBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experienceComfort driving clarity in ambiguous, evolving problem spacesHands-on AWS: designing, deploying, and operating production services or pipelines, with IaC and safe rolloutDeep fluency in a modern language (Go, Java, Python, or similar)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 workstreamsStrong cross-team communication able to disagree with data and commit once decidedFull-stack experience ownership across backend APIs and frontend experiencesExperience working with large-scale event or log data, including event-driven architectures, asynchronous processing, or batch/streaming pipelinesFamiliarity 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 insightFamiliarity with Twitch, either as a viewer or creator (or both!)