Software Development Engineer, Security

📋 Description

• 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 in design reviews, retrospectives, and technical discussions, influencing decisions through strong technical leadership.
• Raise the quality bar through thoughtful code reviews, documentation, and maintainable system design.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of experience building and operating production Go services and full-stack applications, with ownership across backend APIs, frontend 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.

🎁 Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision & disability insurance
• 401(k)
• Maternity & parental leave
• Flexible PTO
• Amazon Employee Discount