Software Development Engineer, Amazon, APM Twitch
Posted October 13, 2026
Job Description
- Want to work on one of the highest priorities across Amazon Ads? This is your chance to have a positive impact on millions of Amazon customers worldwide. We're growing an engineering team to support the
Description
- Want to work on one of the highest priorities across Amazon Ads? This is your chance to have a positive impact on millions of Amazon customers worldwide. We're growing an engineering team to support the Twitch Ads business that powers the advertising experience for millions of viewers and streamers daily. We're looking for a passionate, team-oriented, and talented Software Development Engineer with experience building innovative platforms and experiences that customers love. This is a unique opportunity to get in early and drive significant portions of the technical roadmap. Key job responsibilities - Design and build low-latency, highly scalable systems that enable thousands of concurrent advertisers to deliver unique experiences to millions of customers. - Contribute across the full software development lifecycle — from product definition and scoping through design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance. - Write clean, well-documented code and actively participate in code reviews, providing meaningful feedback to teammates. - Collaborate with product managers, designers, data engineers, and fellow software engineers to translate business requirements into reliable, performant solutions. - Identify and resolve operational issues at their root cause, and continuously improve system reliability and team processes. A day in the life You'll spend your time writing and reviewing code, whiteboarding system designs, and pairing with teammates to solve real technical challenges in ad delivery at scale. You'll participate in design discussions, contribute to sprint planning, and work closely with product managers to ensure what you're building aligns with customer needs. When operational questions arise, you'll dig into metrics and logs to find answers and drive permanent fixes. About the team Our team powers the advertising experience for Twitch, one of Amazon's high-priority initiatives. We build the infrastructure and platforms that enable advertisers to reach millions of engaged viewers while maintaining the quality experience streamers and their communities expect. We value collaboration, technical rigor, and creative problem-solving, and we're looking for engineers who are excited to shape the future of advertising on one of the world's largest live streaming platforms.
Basic Qualifications
- - Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field - 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience - 3+ years of Object Oriented Design experience - 3+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience - 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience - Experience programming with at least one software programming language