Software Dev Engineer I - Security Platform

Twitch • San Francisco, CA

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About The Position

Twitch Security Platform builds and operates the foundational software, data, and automation that enable security at scale across Twitch. As a Software Development Engineer I on the Security Platform team, you will design, build, and operate critical services, pipelines, and tooling that support Twitch's security, privacy, and compliance programs. The role works 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 with engineers and product teams to solve security problems through well-designed software. This role is suited to an engineer who learns quickly, values operational excellence, and wants to improve Twitch's security posture.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience developing software in a professional environment.
• Fluency in a modern programming language such as Go.

Nice To Haves

• Experience building internal tooling or products for other developers.
• Experience building software and services using AWS technologies such as ECS, DynamoDB, Lambda, SQS, and Step Functions.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code, such as AWS CDK, or CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with Twitch, gaming, and/or streaming on Twitch.
• 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 such as CCPA- or GDPR-related controls.
• Experience working with large-scale event or log data, including event-driven architectures, asynchronous processing, or batch/streaming pipelines.
• Experience integrating AI-assisted development or analysis tools into engineering workflows, such as LLM-powered tooling, automation, or MCP-style platforms.

Responsibilities

• Work with technical program managers, technical leads, and other engineers to design, develop, launch, and operate security and privacy software.
• Work backwards from security and privacy problems to drive business impact.
• Maintain and improve existing backend services.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and disability insurance.
• 401(k) and 401(k) matching.
• Maternity and parental leave.
• Flexible PTO.
• Amazon employee discount.
• Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).
• Prescription coverage, Basic Life and AD&D insurance, optional supplemental life plans, EAP, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level