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Senior Software Engineer - Video Ingest
3 years ago
About Us
Launched in 2011, Twitch is a global community that comes together each day to create multiplayer entertainment: unique, live, unpredictable experiences created by the interactions of millions. We bring the joy of co-op to everything, from casual gaming to world-class esports to anime marathons, music, and art streams. Twitch also hosts TwitchCon, where we bring everyone together to celebrate, learn, and grow their personal interests and passions. We’re always live at Twitch. Stay up to date on all things Twitch on LinkedIn , Twitter and on our Blog .
About the Role
Twitch is looking for senior engineers to lead new projects on distributed systems for our video infrastructure team. The video origin team is building a new iteration of our video services that allows instant and scalable video broadcasting in a multi-tenant fashion. Our team powers video broadcasting, transcoding and video on demand recording for Twitch, and new customers like Amazon Live's shopping channel.
We are looking for a senior engineer, with architectural and debugging skills, that cares about scalability, availability and quality to build the next generation of our new multi-tenant video services. We use several techniques across many domains to bring leading-edge cost-effective instantly provisioned video ingestion and encoding.
Being a part of the video origin team will mean your focus will be on discovering innovative solutions to scale up and reduce the cost of video data ingestion and encoding, from networking down to the hardware layer. We have a very unique opportunity to shape the future of the video industry and your goal to solve challenging problems will meaningfully contribute to its success. You will get exposure to all this, while having a fun and supportive culture at your disposal.
You Will:
- Contribute with Code and system design to services under the ingest/origin team.
- Develop maintainable services and libraries using Golang and AWS services
- Help maintain the existing infrastructure allowing broadcasters to stream live video to Twitch
You Have:
- Work with other groups at Twitch and Amazon to deliver new components of the twitch video infrastructure
- Lead in the design and deployment of successful internet-scale systems and services to support the twitch video infrastructure
- Ensure the quality of architecture and design of systems.
- Designing, building and maintaining scalable and reliable micro-services, frameworks and libraries
- Write tooling and services to make video broadcasting more efficient, easy, and robust .
- Mentor junior engineers and always improve engineering practices across the team
Perks
- Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance
- 401(k) , Maternity & Parental Leave
- Flexible PTO
- Commuter Benefits
- Amazon Employee Discount
- Monthly Contribution & Discounts for Wellness Related Activities & Programs (e.g., gym memberships, off-site massages , etc. ),
- Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Served Daily
- Free Snacks & Beverages
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Twitch. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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