Software Engineer - Ad Demand

Position: Software Engineer I- Ad Demand
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DESCRIPTION:

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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 Linked In 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

The Twitch Ads team manages a comprehensive advertising ecosystem that balances revenue generation with user and advertiser satisfaction. We deliver promotional content through multiple channels while maintaining seamless experiences for viewers, creators and advertisers. Our team is responsible for driving up Ad Supply quality for Twitch and enabling Ad Demand via various domains including Ads Targeting, Brand Safety&Suitability, Measurement, Privacy and Ads Data Platform.

These critical technical solutions drive essential business operations and enable trustworthy products for advertisers that are measurable and targetable.

You will become an expert across the breadth of services powering these products - architecting, building, and operating them and working closely with the engineers within the Twitch Ads and Amazon Ads orgs. You will be empowered to work across the stack, and will partner with other engineers, product managers, designers, and data analysts to deliver solutions.

This position is in San Francisco, CA.

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

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

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

- 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

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

- Experience with languages/frameworks we use at Twitch:
Golang, Typescript/React
- Experience building software and services using AWS technologies such as ECS, Dynamo

DB, Lambda, SQS, and Step Functions
- Familiarity with Twitch, gaming, and/or streaming on Twitch

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

Los Angeles County applicants:
Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position.

These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company's reputation.…