Twitch
Software Development Engineer, Security Platform
About this role
Join Twitch's Security Platform team as an SDE II to design and operate critical security infrastructure serving thousands of concurrent users. You'll build production systems for security telemetry, detection automation, and compliance workflows while partnering across security, privacy, and infrastructure teams.
What you'll do
- Own software projects end-to-end from design through production deployment and operational support
- Build and operate critical services, pipelines, and tooling for security telemetry, detection, and response automation
- Drive operational excellence through observability, reliability, and runbook development for business-critical systems
- Partner with Security, Identity, Privacy, and Infrastructure teams on company-wide initiatives
- Influence engineering standards through design reviews, code reviews, and technical decision-making
- Participate in retrospectives and technical discussions to shape platform direction
What they're looking for
- Backend service design and operation (Go, Java, or Python)
- AWS infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code (IaC)
- Security data systems and telemetry processing
- Detection and response automation workflows
- Service-to-service authentication and authorization
- Cross-team technical leadership and communication
- Vulnerability management and compliance systems
- Large-scale data pipeline design
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Twitch
Twitch builds a platform for streaming and creator communities, offering features around user safety, memberships, and commerce to support millions of concurrent users. The company is hiring Software Engineers across multiple teams to develop scalable systems, moderation tools, and features that enhance experiences for creators and viewers.
- Website
- twitch.tv
Likely interview questions
- Walk us through a production backend service you've owned end-to-end—what was the most complex operational challenge and how did you resolve it?
- Tell us about a time you had to work across multiple teams with conflicting priorities on a security or infrastructure project. How did you navigate that?