Software Engineer I, Builder

Amazon•San Francisco, CA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Care deeply about the developer experience? Like building platforms and tools, tackling hard technical challenges, and ultimately enabling video content creators to earn a living doing what they love? Do you have a passion for internal tools, libraries and setting direction for an entire company? If so, you’d be a great fit for the Software Engineer role in the Builder Frameworks team. We're looking for a backend engineer to help us ship performant, high-quality, and delightful products. Our goal is to improve the productivity and effectiveness of every engineer and leader at Twitch. Through a lens of pure customer obsession, we create a variety of internal products, services, tools and libraries which address important areas such as availability and latency. As an engineer on our team, you will contribute your ideas, own your part, and always keep our users first in mind. This role is based in San Francisco, CA.

Requirements

Knowledge of AWS services
1+ years of experience writing quality software in Go or Typescript
Understanding of deployment tools and the software that makes software work
A desire to constantly make things better

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of Go’s ecosystem
Experience working with GraphQL
Experience debugging complicated production software
Experience with asynchronous services
Experience working with distributed teams

Responsibilities

Build new and support existing tools shared across Twitch to make software better
Develop tools and automation to ease the setup and maintenance of services
Participate in setting a company wide vision for software development
Act as a mentor to other engineers in the company as an expert in tools
Level up our team by contributing to company-wide software architecture and design