Amazon · 1 month ago
Senior Software Engineer, Twitch
Seattle, Washington, USA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$151K/yr - $262K/yr
5+ years expTwitch, a subsidiary of Amazon, is the world’s biggest live streaming service. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable data infrastructure that supports analytics and machine learning use cases while collaborating with various teams to ensure high-quality data access.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)DeliveryE-CommerceFoundational AIRetail
Responsibilities
Design, implement, and maintain scalable data infrastructure in AWS cloud
Build and optimize data pipelines (batch and streaming) to support analytics, reporting, and ML workloads
Ensure data quality, reliability, and observability through monitoring, logging, and automated alerting
Work closely with data engineering and analytics teams to understand requirements and deliver high-performance solutions
Champion best practices for security, compliance, and governance in data infrastructure
Identify opportunities to optimize performance and cost of data platforms
Stay current with emerging tools, frameworks, and cloud services in the data infrastructure ecosystem
Qualification
Required
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
6+ years of hands-on infrastructure, troubleshooting, systems administration, networking, DevOps or applications development experience
Strong hands-on expertise with cloud platforms
Proficiency in data pipeline tools (e.g., Airflow, dbt, AWS Glue, Flink)
Experience with data storage technologies (e.g., Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery, Delta Lake, Iceberg, Parquet)
Proficiency in GO, SQL, and Python for building and maintaining data systems
Solid understanding of distributed systems and performance optimization
Preferred
Experience with real-time data streaming and event-driven architectures
Strong hands-on expertise with AWS cloud
Background in observability and monitoring
Knowledge of data governance, security, and compliance best practices
Prior experience supporting machine learning or advanced analytics environments
Benefits
Equity
Sign-on payments
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Company
Amazon
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Funding
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$8.11BKey Investors
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2001-07-24Post Ipo Equity· $100M
1997-05-15IPO
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