Software Development Engineer, Security Platform

About the Role

As a Software Development Engineer II (SDE II) on the Security Platform team at Twitch, you will design, build, and operate critical services, pipelines, and tooling that power Twitch's security, privacy, and compliance programs.

In this role, you will work at the intersection of software, security, privacy, and data engineering, contributing production systems that handle large-scale security telemetry, automate security workflows, and provide reliable data and services to internal teams.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver well-scoped software projects end-to-end, from design through production support.
• Partner across Security, Identity, Privacy, and Infrastructure on Twitch-wide initiatives.
• Drive operational excellence: observability, reliability, and operational readiness for critical systems.
• Raise the engineering bar through design reviews, code reviews, clear technical decision-making and validation including AI-assisted output.
• Participate in retrospectives and technical discussions, influencing decisions through technical leadership.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years building and operating production backend services with end-to-end ownership (design, deploy, operate).
• Deep fluency in a modern language (Go, Java, Python, or similar).
• Hands-on AWS: designing, deploying, and operating production services or pipelines, with IaC and safe rollout.
• Comfort driving clarity in ambiguous, evolving problem spaces.
• A track record of leading technical projects that span multiple services and parallel workstreams.
• Strong cross-team communication able to disagree with data and commit once decided.

Nice to Have

• Full-stack experience ownership across backend APIs and frontend experiences.
• Familiarity with security, data, and privacy systems, such as security or audit data lakes, cloud authentication and authorization flows, vulnerability scanning and remediation pipelines, and privacy or compliance-driven workflows (e.g., CCPA, GDPR-related controls).
• Experience working with large-scale event or log data, including event-driven architectures, asynchronous processing, or batch/streaming pipelines.
• Experience integrating AI-assisted development or analysis tools into engineering workflows, such as using LLM-powered tooling, automation, or MCP-style platforms to improve developer productivity or system insight.
• Familiarity with Twitch, either as a viewer or creator (or both!)

Benefits

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