Software Engineer I

Twitch

📍San Francisco, CA
💰 $110,500 - $160,000
Posted May 20, 2026
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Job Overview

Position

Software Engineer I

Company

Twitch

Location

San Francisco, CA

Work Type

On-site

Salary Range

$110,500 - $160,000

Job ID

li-4406584425

Job Description

About Us
Twitch is the world’s biggest live streaming service, with global communities built around gaming, entertainment, music, sports, cooking, and more. It is where thousands of communities come together for whatever, every day.

We’re about community, inside and out. You’ll find coworkers who are eager to team up, collaborate, and smash (or elegantly solve) problems together. We’re on a quest to empower live communities, so if this sounds good to you, see what we’re up to on LinkedIn and X, and discover the projects we’re solving on our Blog. Be sure to explore our Interviewing Guide to learn how to ace our interview process.

About The Role
Join Twitch's Commerce Engineering organization, where we're revolutionizing how viewers engage with their favorite creators. We are the teams behind Subscriptions, Gifting, Bits, Hype Train and Turbo products. From experimental features to established systems used by millions, we're constantly pushing the boundaries of what's possible in live streaming.

This position and team are based in Seattle, WA and San Francisco, CA

You Will:

  • Craft immersive, interactive experiences that keep viewers supporting creators while engaging with the Twitch Community.

  • Architect and build robust, scalable applications that can handle millions of concurrent users

  • Collaborate across teams to create cohesive solutions that drive business impact

  • Transform customer feedback into innovative features that enhance the Twitch experience

You Have:

  • 0-2 years of professional software development experience

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills; Ability to effectively collaborate with teammates is critical to success.

  • A track record of building consumer-facing products that users love

  • Demonstrable experience of modern programming languages and frameworks

  • Sharp problem-solving skills with a focus on algorithms, data structures, and schema design

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent real-world experience

Bonus Points

  • Experience with mobile development, either native or hybrid

  • Familiarity with AWS infrastructure

  • Experience with email / notifications technologies

  • Experience writing Go in production systems

Perks

  • 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.*
Job ID: TW9041

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. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

US, WA, Seattle - Annually

$110,500—$160,000 USD

US, CA, San Francisco - Annually

$127,100—$185,000 USD

*Twitch is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.*
*Twitch values your privacy. Please consult our Candidate Privacy Notice, for information about how we collect, use, and disclose personal information of our candidates.*

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Practice Questions

💡Technical Questions (3)
  • 1.How would you design the database schema to support a high-throughput feature like Twitch's Gifting, ensuring that concurrent gifts don't lead to data inconsistencies or race conditions?
  • 2.Twitch experiences massive traffic spikes during events like game releases or Hype Trains. How would you architect a service to handle these sudden surges in concurrent users without degrading performance?
  • 3.Given that our team builds interactive experiences like Subscriptions and Bits, how would you ensure low-latency communication between the client and server for real-time engagement features?
🎯Behavioral Questions (3)
  • 1.Tell me about a time you built a feature for a consumer-facing product that significantly improved the user experience. How did you incorporate user feedback?
  • 2.Describe a situation where you had to collaborate with engineers or teams outside your immediate group to deliver a cohesive solution. How did you ensure smooth communication?
  • 3.Tell me about a time you faced a difficult technical problem, like a complex algorithmic challenge or a tricky schema design. How did you approach solving it?
🧩Situational Questions (2)
  • 1.You are tasked with building a new notification system for Hype Train, but you discover the current AWS infrastructure isn't processing the notifications fast enough during peak traffic. What do you do?
  • 2.A viewer reports that they purchased a Subscription, but the interactive benefits aren't showing up in the chat room, even though the payment went through. How would you approach debugging and resolving this?

Resume Keywords

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Scalable ApplicationsConcurrent UsersSchema DesignConsumer-Facing ProductsAlgorithmsData StructuresAWSGoCross-functional CollaborationLive StreamingInteractive ExperiencesMobile Development

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