Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure
Content + Source + Freshness • 12 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
High value role due to its prominent position in a leading tech company, emphasis on innovation, and collaboration on cutting-edge data infrastructure projects.
- Impactful role in a major technology company
- Opportunities to work with leading data infrastructure technologies
- Collaborative and innovative environment
- Requires strong technical background in data engineering
Pros
- Work in a high-traffic platform with significant user engagement
- Opportunities to work with advanced technologies on data infrastructures
- Contributions to impactful projects within Amazon's ecosystem
Cons
- Potentially high workload given the scale of responsibilities
- Requires continuous learning to keep up with evolving tools and frameworks
- Not specified salary may limit attractiveness
Who it's for
Mid to Senior Level • On-site with potential for hybrid
Good fit
- Data engineers with AWS experience
- Mid to senior professionals eager to work in streaming technologies
- Candidates passionate about creating scalable data solutions
Not recommended for
- Entry-level candidates without necessary experience
- Individuals seeking a low-pressure environment
- Those prioritizing remote work only
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
DESCRIPTION
If you are interested in this position, please apply on Twitch's Career site https://www.twitch.tv/jobs/en/
About Us:
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.
About the Role
IVS is building the future of interactive video and we are seeking a Data Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and maintain the systems that power our data-driven organization. In this role, you will ensure that our data pipelines, storage, and processing systems are reliable, scalable, and optimized for analytics, machine learning, and business intelligence use cases. You will collaborate with data engineers, analysts, and software teams to create infrastructure that enables efficient and secure access to high-quality data.
You Will
- 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.
Perks
- Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance
- 401(k)
- Maternity & Parental Leave
- Amazon Employee Discount
About the team
Our Video Team is the backbone of Twitch. Twitch processes a massive amount of live video channels and distributes them using the largest dedicated live video CDN in the world, delivering over 25Tbps to more than 5MM concurrent viewers. In addition to serving Twitch traffic, our video platform is offered as Amazon Interactive Video Service, an AWS service that allows the creation of a live video streaming platform with only a few lines of code. Engineers with our Video Team work across a range of areas including ingest, transcoding, and distribution with the lowest latency high-scale HLS distribution system in the world.
