Software Engineer I

Twitch is the world’s biggest live streaming service, with global communities built around gaming, entertainment, music, sports, cooking, and more. It is where thousands of communities come together for whatever, every day.

We’re about community, inside and out. You’ll find coworkers who are eager to team up, collaborate, and smash (or elegantly solve) problems together. We’re on a quest to empower live communities, so if this sounds good to you, see what we’re up to on LinkedIn and X, and discover the projects we’re solving on our Blog. Be sure to explore our Interviewing Guide to learn how to ace our interview process.

On-Demand is a team within the Engagement Growth organization at Twitch, focused on ensuring our creators have the tools they need to build, grow, and entertain their communities. As an engineer here, you'll work on our video on demand, clips, and other short-form content. This includes how creators create and curate them, as well as the platforms that distribute these assets to all of their viewers. You'll work alongside a highly engaged, collaborative team that designs, builds, and maintains systems that scale to millions of concurrent users. We're constantly improving the experience for our users, and we're looking for new team members who share that passion for the end user. This position is in Seattle, WA.

Learn and contribute across the full stack of our software

Backend (Go), Frontend (React)

Collaborate with fellow engineers, product managers and designers to build new products and solutions

Participate in Operational Excellence work to maintain and support our live services

Help earn customer trust by working with our support teams to resolve issues and fix production bugs

A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience as a Software Engineer

Willingness to learn new things and work with a diverse group of people

A strong foundation in data structures and algorithms.

Familiarity with scalability, concurrency, API design, data modeling, and distributed systems fundamentals.

Proficiency in Go, Java, Python or another Object-oriented language

An eagerness to grow as a Software Engineer

Familiarity with AWS infrastructure

Coding experience with React

Twitch experience / knowledge as a viewer, moderator or streamer