Twitch

Our Product

Twitch is changing the world by building its biggest live video broadcasting platform and community for gamers, and changing the way in which people consume, interact with and create live video.

• How Big Is Twitch’s Audience? HUGE! We have a lot of viewers, that come to us from all over the world.
• MANvsGAME says he "rage-quit" his normal 9 to 5 job and became a full-time broadcaster to make a living!
• TwitchPlaysPokemon is an experiment by one of our broadcasters that allowed users to complete a single game of Pokemon together.
• All of this makes us bigger than you might think. In recent metrics from DeepField, Twitch was 4th in peak internet traffic in the U.S. 

Our Challenges

Twitch is tackling and solving some of the hardest technology problems on the planet and doing things that nobody’s done before, or at least haven’t done well.

• Twitch is one of the biggest users of bandwidth in the U.S. and in the world. We’re building our own video CDN to make sure that we provide the best service possible, and we’re doing it as quickly and efficiently as possible.
• Our live chat system, TMI, regularly delivers over 1 million messages a second, and that number is growing rapidly.
• Our engineering team is targeting platforms from the desktop web, to iOS, Android, and every next generation gaming console.

Our People

It’s sort of a given—every career page invariably talks about how awesome and incredible the people you’ll be working with are. But objectively, we ARE the most awesome and incredible! We’ve got everyone from young grads who are excited to try to change the world, to grizzled dot-com veterans who have done it before and want to do it again. We have people with graduate degrees from some of the world’s most prestigious universities, and college dropouts whose primary qualification is the ability to get things done.

Our Perks

You should never work somewhere just because of their perks, but we do have some awesome ones. Happy people are productive people, so we have catered lunches and dinners, snacks, gym memberships, massages and more.

For internships we look for candidates who: 

• Are capable of thinking through a problem and presenting a reasonable solution
• Are capable of implementing the solution reliably and quickly
• Can pick up a new language, and be productive with it in a week
• Like to work collaboratively and can communicate well in a team environment

Bonus Points if: 

• You know Linux. You wouldn’t be uncomfortable if someone suggested you spend a few hours digging around /proc to see if you can squeeze a bit more performance out of the tcp stack.
• You've written an iPhone app that we can go download on our phones right now. Ditto Android, Palm Pre, or even Windows Mobile.
• You don't just use open source, you've contributed bug fixes or features back. Or even better, you have your own project.
• You have previous experience using Javascript, Go, C/C++ in a production environment.

To learn more about interning with Twitch or to apply, click here

For new grad full-time engineers we look for candidates who: 

• Are pursuing degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Math or related technical field
• Have previous intern experience as a software engineer in a fast growing startup
• Are proficient in at least one of the following languages: Javascript, Java, Go, C#, Ruby, Python, or C++

Bonus Points if: 

• You have a strong knowledge of internet and web technology fundamentals
• You have experience working in agile development teams
• You have experience working on complex, multi-layer applications
• You have a passion for games or other interactive media

If you are graduating in Winter 2015 and want to learn more aboutnew grad opportunities at Twitch or to apply, click here

If you are graduating in Spring 2016 and want to learn more aboutnew grad opportunities at Twitch or to apply, click here