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Amazon Linux Systems Engineer in Seattle, Washington
Linux Systems Engineer
@ Twitch Seattle, WA
About Us
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IVS Video infrastructure team owns the operation of all Twitch/Amazon IVS global infrastructure. We support all Twitch/Amazon IVS data centers and all of the servers, storage and networking that ensure our customers have access to the innovation they rely on. You will join a diverse team of software and system, and network engineers. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS and Twitch to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers.
About the Role
Twitch/Amazon IVS is building the future of interactive video. IVS Video infrastructure team is looking for an experienced Linux System Engineer to solve challenging technology problems, and build architecturally sound, high-quality components to enable Twitch/Amazon IVS to accomplish critical business strategies. You'll come up to speed on new engineering disciplines, making impactful decisions within that space, and have experience gluing together components written by more specialized engineers to create a cohesive, well-running engineering product.
This position will be located in Seattle, WA.
You Will:
Design and implement high quality services and automated solutions to manage a fleet of BareMetal Linux hosts.
Work in an Agile, startup-like development environment, where you are always working on the most important stuff.
Use data to measure success and manage the quality of your service and, regardless of their source, aim to prevent faults from affecting our customers
Contribute to technical project definition, scoping, and prioritization discussions.
Contribute to documentation of processes and procedures.
Participate in an on-call rotation with your team.
You Have:
4+ years of non-internship professional software/System development experience
3+ years of experience with network protocols, TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, NTP, HTTP, Proxies and monitoring tools
2+ years of development/programming/scripting language (Python/Bash/Go) experience
Good troubleshooting skills at all levels, from application to network to host
Experience with Hardware, Baremetal management or data center environment
Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes
Bonus Points
6+ years of non-internship professional software/System development experience
Solid Understanding of POST, BIOS, PXE, Kickstart, GRUB, RAID
Hands-on experience with Squid, Infoblox, Nagios, and AWS CDK
Knowledge of configuration management systems, such as: Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or related systems
Perks
Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance
401(k)
Maternity & Parental Leave
Flexible PTO
Amazon Employee Discount
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.
Twitch values your privacy. Please consult our Candidate Privacy Notice , for information about how we collect, use, and disclose personal information of our candidates.
Job ID: TW8521
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from our lowest geographic market up to our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience . Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. This position will remain open until filled. For more information, please visit https://www.twitch.tv/jobs/en/#learn-more . Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
Remote US Pay Per Year
$116,300—$201,200 USD
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