Software Engineer API Platform
Amazon.com
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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 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
The API Platform team builds high-traffic, internet-facing services that power Twitch websites, mobile clients, and our large third party developer community. Our GraphQL edge service is one of the biggest in the industry based on performance, throughput, and sheer number of downstream services it connects. The team owns the internal and external messaging platforms that power real-time capabilities on our website, native apps and third-party apps like StreamElements and StreamLabs. We handle billions of notifications per day.
We’re looking for engineers with a strong interest in building and architecting scalable, low latency and fault tolerant APIs . As a software engineer on the API platform team, you will help develop, maintain and innovate around our first party GraphQL APIs and real-time platforms while working with multiple product teams to deliver great experience and content to our streamers and viewers communities. You'll shape the work of your peers, and be an integral part of our engineering team, reporting to our Engineering Manager for API Development.
The ideal candidate thrives in a collaborative fast paced environment, takes initiative, and proactively seeks opportunities to grow their skills and knowledge. If you are a self-starter who is naturally curious and eager to learn, we'd love to hear from you!
You Will
- Work with the product leaders to build and release new features to empower Twitch.
- Work on high throughput, low latency edge services.
- Contribute to architectural, design, and process discussions involving the technological choices involved in building Twitch’s GraphQL API and real-time platform.
- Design and deliver robust real-time messaging features that enable seamless service notifications
- You’ll identify and uphold engineering best practices.
Perks
- Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance
- 401(k)
- Maternity & Parental Leave
- Flexible PTO
- Amazon Employee Discount
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
The API Platform team builds high-traffic, internet-facing services that power Twitch websites, mobile clients, and our large third party developer community. Our GraphQL edge service is one of the biggest in the industry based on performance, throughput, and sheer number of downstream services it connects. The team owns the internal and external messaging platforms that power real-time capabilities on our website, native apps and third-party apps like StreamElements and StreamLabs. We handle billions of notifications per day.
We’re looking for engineers with a strong interest in building and architecting scalable, low latency and fault tolerant APIs . As a software engineer on the API platform team, you will help develop, maintain and innovate around our first party GraphQL APIs and real-time platforms while working with multiple product teams to deliver great experience and content to our streamers and viewers communities. You'll shape the work of your peers, and be an integral part of our engineering team, reporting to our Engineering Manager for API Development.
The ideal candidate thrives in a collaborative fast paced environment, takes initiative, and proactively seeks opportunities to grow their skills and knowledge. If you are a self-starter who is naturally curious and eager to learn, we'd love to hear from you!
You Will
- Work with the product leaders to build and release new features to empower Twitch.
- Work on high throughput, low latency edge services.
- Contribute to architectural, design, and process discussions involving the technological choices involved in building Twitch’s GraphQL API and real-time platform.
- Design and deliver robust real-time messaging features that enable seamless service notifications
- You’ll identify and uphold engineering best practices.
Perks
- Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance
- 401(k)
- Maternity & Parental Leave
- Flexible PTO
- Amazon Employee Discount
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