Overview

Twitch is building the future of interactive entertainment. Every part of the work we do is with the goal of making Twitch even more efficient, resilient and responsive.

We are rapidly expanding our currently sizable infrastructure and are looking for someone who can help facilitate the growth of the Twitch Network. You will be directly involved in the strategy, planning and negotiating of the Twitch global network and will interact closely with outside vendors to design, develop, and deliver assets for network connectivity, colocation space & power across the world. This position is well situated for someone looking to work with multinational companies on a global scale.

Responsibilities

  • Identify locations to support current and future growth of the Twitch data center footprint
  • Building and maintaining strategic long-term relationships with datacenter operators for effective, efficient and scalable delivery of Twitch content to users
  • Identify, negotiating and closing contracts covering colocation, fiber and transport services
  • Communicating progress internally and collaborate with a wide variety of internal teams including product and business development, legal, datacenter operations and deployment
  • Supporting team in deployments to minimize unit price
  • Track, report and measure
  • Work on capacity planning and evolution of data center strategy
  • Work on new process/legal documents with internal teams

Requirements

  • 5+ years of Internet infrastructure work including technical and commercial knowledge of internet providers, telecommunications providers, internet exchange points, datacenter providers
  • Experience interpreting contracts and other legal documents
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Relationship management experience
  • Understanding of  Infrastructure  market pricing, capacity availability and colocation providers
  • Bachelor’s degree or related work experience
  • Willing to travel up to 30% of the time

Perks

  • Full benefits, including medical, dental, vision and life
  • 401(k) savings plan with a company match
  • Catered daily lunch and dinners (and hearty breakfasts three times a week)
  • Unlimited snacks and drinks
  • Monthly in-office massages
  • Corporate gym membership
  • Commuter benefits
  • Flexible time off policy
  • Weekly happy hours and opportunity to attend one gaming event or tournament a year
  • Top of the line technology to help you build your own workspace

About Twitch

Twitch is the world’s leading video platform and community for gamers, with more than 100 million visitors per month. We connect gamers from around the world by allowing them to broadcast, watch, and chat with each other. Twitch’s live and on-demand video platform forms the backbone of a distribution network for video game broadcasters including pro players, tournaments, leagues, developers and gaming media organizations. Twitch is leading a revolution in gaming culture, turning gameplay into an immersive video experience. Learn more at http://twitch.tv.

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.

About Twitch

Twitch is the world’s leading video platform and community for gamers. More than 100 million gamers gather every month to broadcast, watch and chat about gaming.

Twitch’s video platform is the backbone of live and on-demand distribution for leading video game broadcasters including casual gamers, pro players, tournaments, leagues, developers and gaming media organizations. Twitch is leading a revolution in the gaming community, working to create a participatory experience that transcends gameplay.

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.