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About the Role

Twitch is looking for a Senior Engineer to join the Video Team. The team designs essential security controls and event monitoring technologies, contributing to Security concerns across the team, and being general Security experts for all kinds of multiple needs. We’re looking for a person that wants to participate in a positive, encouraging team that cares about the people it protects.

As a Senior Engineer, you will provide technical direction, oversight, and execution guidance for several of the team’s ongoing projects. Engineers will turn to you when they’re not sure how to do something, or which technology option best suits a project. The engineers on this team are focused on individual security project execution; the Senior Engineer is focused on major project security consulting and providing essential design and direction guidance for new projects. We do not expect expertise in all of the team responsibility areas, but we do expect you to be fluent with almost all of them and demonstrate technical expertise in several.

You can expect to learn about all of them to some degree as you spend time on this team and as your role expands. We do not expect that you’re an expert in all of these responsibilities. We want you to be familiar with several of the team's responsibility areas, or well versed in one of them and interested in the other areas.

You Will:

• Security reviews for new products, technologies, and services
• Secure design, architecture, and implementation
• Secure development life-cycle (SDLC) practices including threat modeling and security testing
• Influence decision-makers and stakeholders throughout the organization in multiple teams to achieve a consistently high security bar
• Guide penetration testing engagements and create new testing methods and exploits
• Create security guidance and documentation
• Develop security tools and automation
• Develop and deliver security training and outreach to internal development teams
• Develop and improve metrics that drive desired behavior and security outcomes
• Guide security projects (including security reviews, tool development, and creation of new security practices) with end-to-end ownership

You Have:

• Fluency with AWS
• 5+ years of demonstrated experience with focus in areas such as systems, network or security
• Previous hands-on and high-level experience in systems administration, network administration, or large environment security engineering
• Knowledge of web protocols and an in-depth knowledge of Linux/Unix tools and architecture
• background in Authentication and Authorization concepts
• Software development proficiency (Go, Python, Perl, Java, etc.)
• Comprehension of algorithms and processes for programmatic automation via scripting or programming languages (Go, Python, Ruby, shell, perl, etc.)
• Background in host, network and application security
• BS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or 8+ years equivalent technology experience

Bonus Points

• Fluency with Go
• Masters from a Technical Science, Engineering, or Statistics program
• Published works, technical or otherwise, in the security space
• Avid user of Twitch with a passion for the Twitch community

Perks

• Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance
• 401(k)
• Maternity & Parental Leave
• Flexible PTO
• Commuter Benefits
• Amazon Employee Discount
• Monthly Contribution & Discounts for Wellness Related Activities & Programs (e.g., gym memberships, off-site massages, etc.)
• Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Served Daily
• Free Snacks & Beverages 

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Twitch. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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