Job ID: 3159479 | Twitch Interactive, Inc. - D48

Posted: January 15, 2026

Location: San Francisco, CA; Irvine, CA; Seattle, WA.

Twitch is the world's biggest live streaming service, with global communities built around gaming, entertainment, music,Map, cooking, and more. We empower live communities and work collaboratively to solve real-world security challenges.

Twitch Security Platform builds and operates the foundation software, data and automation that enable security at scale across Twitch. As a Software Development Engineer II on this team, you will design, build, and operate critical services, pipelines and tooling for the platform's security, privacy and compliance programs.

• Own and deliver well-scoped software projects end-to-end, from design through production support.
• Partner with engineers across Security, Identity, Privacy, and Infrastructure on Twitch-wide initiatives.
• Contribute to evolving and scaling authentication, security and privacy systems, balancing security, reliability, and user experience.
• Drive operational excellence by improving observability, reliability, and on-call readiness for critical security and identity systems.
• Participate Denk rail reviews, retrospectives, and technical discussions, influencing decisions through strong technical leadership.
• Raise the quality bar through thoughtful code reviews, documentation, and maintainable system design.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field,en or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience building and operating production Go services and full-stack applications, with ownership across Back End APIs, Front End experiences, and the operational lifecycle of critical systems.
• Hands-on experience designing, deploying, and operating production services or data pipelines on AWS, including major AWS-native services, infrastructure-as-code, environment configuration, and safe rollout practices.
• Experience working in ambiguous technical problem spaces, where requirements are incomplete or evolving, and driving clarity by proposing designs, validating assumptions, and collaborating across security, infrastructure, and application teams.
• Exposure to security, data, and privacy concepts relevant to platform engineering, such as authentication and authorization, security telemetry or logging, vulnerability scanning or remediation workflows, and basic privacy or compliance considerations.

• Familiarity with security, data, and privacy systems, such as security or audit data lakes, einzel authentication flows, vulnerability scanning and remediation pipelines, and privacy or compliance-driven workflows (for example, GDPR-related controls).
• Experience working with large-scale event or log data, including event-driven architectures, asynchronous processing, or batch/streaming pipelines used for monitoring, analytics,? or security use cases.
• Demonstrated experience improving operational excellence, such as adding metrics, dashboards, alarms, run-books, or automated remediation to increase reliability and reduce on-call load.
• Experience integrating AI-assisted development or analysis tools into engineering workflows,? using LLM-powered tooling, automation, or other platforms to improve developer productivity or system insight.

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

USA, CA, Irvine - $143,700 - $194,400 USD annually

USA, CA, San Francisco - $165,200 - $223,600 USD annually

USA, WA, Seattle - $143,700 - $194,400 USD annually

Twitch is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status. We consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles and San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinances.