Amazon Software Engineer API Platform 

United States, California, San Francisco 

642298408

About the RoleWe’re looking for engineers with a strong interest in building and architecting scalable, low latency and fault tolerant APIs . As a software engineer on the API platform team, you will help develop, maintain and innovate around our first party GraphQL APIs and real-time platforms while working with multiple product teams to deliver great experience and content to our streamers and viewers communities. You'll shape the work of your peers, and be an integral part of our engineering team, reporting to our Engineering Manager for API Development.You Will- Work with the product leaders to build and release new features to empower Twitch.
- Work on high throughput, low latency edge services.
- Contribute to architectural, design, and process discussions involving the technological choices involved in building Twitch’s GraphQL API and real-time platform.
- Design and deliver robust real-time messaging features that enable seamless service notifications
- You’ll identify and uphold engineering best practices.

- A degree in Computer Science, a related Engineering discipline, or equivalent experience.
- Have experience developing with static-typed languages. We work mostly in Go, and while experience as a Go developer isn’t required (you can learn it pretty quickly), we do believe being good at types is an important qualification.Enjoy building intuitive APIs for developers.
- Write high quality code that’s easy to read and understand.

- Familiarity with AWS technologies.
- Familiarity with messaging or event driven systems.
- Experience building and maintaining large public API’s.Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.