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Amazon is hiring: Senior Software Engineer, Ads in seattle

Amazon · Seattle, WA, USA ·

Pay:
$168,100-$227,400/yr
Job type:
Full Time

Description

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.

About the Role

Twitch enables content creators to live-stream content to their communities across the globe. Advertising is a core part of Twitch's business model, and spans across many product areas. We take pride in our mission to help creators earn a living by entertaining and educating their viewers. You'll be part of a passionate and customer-obsessed team working to prove Twitch is the best advertising platform for creators and advertisers alike.

You Will

  • Develop and operate new product features on native AWS infrastructure
  • Scale and improve existing services used to power the Twitch advertising platform
  • Improve engineering processes to increase team effectiveness
  • Mentor and cultivate the growth of the engineers around you
  • Contribute to overall team and organization technical strategy and architecture design
  • Work across teams, organizations, and third parties to provide value to our customers

Perks

  • Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Maternity & Parental Leave
  • Flexible PTO
  • Amazon Employee Discount

Basic Qualifications

  • 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
  • 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
  • Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field
  • 5+ years experience in Go, Java, Python, C++, or similar languages
  • 5+ years experience developing and operating low-latency distributed services, and/or high-volume data processing workflows
  • Experience refining technical strategy and mentoring engineers

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with the AWS ecosystem of services (Lambda, EC2, RDS, Dynamo, or CloudWatch)
  • Experience with data pipelines (Kinesis, Airflow, Redshift, or Spark)
  • Experience with web development (React, TypeScript, Jest)
  • Experience with mobile development (Android, iOS)
  • Familiarity with the ad industry and ad measurement space

Equal Opportunity

Twitch is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

USA, WA, SEATTLE - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually

USA, WA, Seattle - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually

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