Software Development Engineer, Security Platform
Builds and operates security platform services at Twitch, designing scalable systems for security telemetry, automation, and compliance. Works with backend tech (Go/Java/Python) and AWS to solve real-world security problems.
- Compensation
- $143.7K–$194.4K / yr
- Location
- Seattle, WA
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 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 experience: designing, deploying, and operating production services or pipelines, with IaC and safe rollout
- Comfort driving clarity in ambiguous, evolving problem spaces
- Track record of leading technical projects spanning multiple services and parallel workstreams
- Strong cross-team communication and ability 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 (e.g., security data lakes, cloud auth, vulnerability scanning, CCPA/GDPR workflows)
- Experience with large-scale event or log data (event-driven architectures, async processing, batch/streaming pipelines)
- Experience integrating AI-assisted development or analysis tools into engineering workflows
- Familiarity with Twitch (viewer or creator experience)
Full 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 Team
Twitch Security Platform builds and operates the foundational software, data, and automation that enable security at scale across Twitch. As a Software Development Engineer II (SDE II) on the Security Platform team, you will design, build, and operate critical services, pipelines, and tooling that power Twitch's security, privacy, and compliance programs.
About the Role
Twitch Security Platform builds and operates the foundational software, data, and automation that enable security at scale across Twitch. As a Software Development Engineer II (SDE II) on the Security Platform team, 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. You will partner closely with engineers and product teams to solve real-world security problems through well-designed software.
You will own projects end-to-end from design and implementation through deployment and operational support for the systems that are business-critical and highly visible. The problems you work on will span areas such as security data ingestion and processing, detection and response automation, service-to-service authentication, vulnerability management, and privacy engineering. This is a broad platform charter, and priorities shift as the security landscape does; you should be energized by a wide surface area and comfortable moving fluidly between systems rather than anchored to a single one.
This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys working in ambiguous problem spaces, values operational excellence, enables peers, and wants to see their work directly improve Twitch's security posture at scale.
You can work from San Francisco, CA; Irvine, CA; or Seattle, WA.
You Will:
- Own and deliver well-scoped software projects end-to-end, from design through production support.