Software Engineer, Creator Sponsorships

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.

Twitch is the world's biggest live streaming service, with global communities built around gaming, entertainment, music, sports, cooking, and more. It's where millions of people come together to chat, interact, and make their own entertainment.

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 Twitter, get interviewing tips on Instagram, and discover projects we're solving on our Blog.

Creators are the backbone of Twitch, and their sustainability relies primarily on their ability to earn a living doing what they love. As a member of the engineering team, you will report to the Senior Engineering Manger of the Creator Sponsorships team. Your core focus will be building products and features that unlock influencer marketing at scale, enabling creators to earn a living and driving value for brands.

Our team owns Creator Sponsorships and Drops, with products ranging from greenfield and experimental, to scaled and used by millions. You will become an expert across the breadth of services powering these products - architecting, building, and operating them.  You will be empowered to work across the stack, and will partner with other engineers, product managers, designers, and data specialists to deliver solutions.

This position is hybrid with a base in San Francisco, CA or Seattle, WA.

• Work with product managers, technical leads, and other engineers to design, develop, launch, and operate interactive experiences
• Build distributed applications at scale
• Collaborate with both your team and related teams - fostering shared understanding of how to solve common problems and deliver solutions 
• Work backwards from customer problems to drive business impact

• 1+ Years experience developing software in a professional environment
• Prior experience building consumer-facing products at scale
• Proficient coding skills in modern languages and frameworks
• Proven ability with algorithms, data structures, data modeling, and schema design
• Minimum of Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

• Experience with languages/frameworks we use at Twitch: Golang, Typescript/React
• Experience building software and services using AWS technologies such as ECS, DynamoDB, Lambda, SQS, and Step Functions
• Familiarity with Twitch, gaming, and/or streaming on Twitch