Software Engineer , Builder Frameworks

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Care deeply about the developer experience? Like building platforms and tools, tackling hard technical challenges, and ultimately enabling video content creators to earn a living doing what they love? Do you have a passion for internal tools, libraries and setting direction for an entire company? If so, you’d be a great fit for the Software Engineer role in the Builder Frameworks team.

We're looking for a backend engineer to help us ship performant, high-quality, and delightful products.

Our goal is to improve the productivity and effectiveness of every engineer and leader ough a lens of pure customer obsession, we create a variety of internal products, services, tools and libraries which address important areas such as availability and latency. As an engineer on our team, you will contribute your ideas, own your part, and always keep our users first in mind.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA.

• Build new and support existing tools shared across Twitch to make software better
• Develop tools and automation to ease the setup and maintenance of services
• Participate in setting a company wide vision for software development
• Act as a mentor to other engineers in the company as an expert in tools
• Level up our team by contributing to company-wide software architecture and design

• Familiarity with the AWS ecosystem
• 1+ years of experience writing quality software in Go or Typescript
• Understanding of deployment tools and the software that makes software work
• A desire to constantly make things better

• Knowledge of Go’s ecosystem
• Experience working with GraphQL
• Experience debugging complicated production software
• Experience with asynchronous services
• Experience working with distributed teams
• Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance
• 401(k)
• Maternity & Parental Leave
• Flexible PTO
• Amazon Employee Discount

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.

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$99,500 — $185,000 USD

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