Software Development Engineer - Safety ML

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About the Role

As a software engineer on Twitch’s Safety ML team, you will leverage machine learning to develop the systems that keep the everyday Twitch user safe from abuse such as harassment, spam, and illegal content. You will collaborate with a passionate team of scientists and engineers to build the systems necessary to train, evaluate, and productionize our various models. You will build the tools and systems necessary to integrate these models into various parts of the Twitch experience to protect our users from harm.

You can work from San Francisco, CA.

You Will:

• Design, build, and deploy reliable and performant services to protect Twitch and its users from abusive behavior such as harassment, spam, and violent or illegal content
• Collaborate with Community Health’s science and product management team to productionize and scale models into ML-based services to be used across Twitch.
• Design and build performant and reliable systems that handle multiple types of data, such as user behavior, metadata, and user generated content at scale for model development
• Deliver high-quality code, tests, and documentation

You Have:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent industry experience as a Software Engineer
• Familiarity with scalability, concurrency, API design, data modeling, and distributed systems fundamentals
• Willingness to learn and keep up with developments in the ever-evolving ML space
• Willingness to try new things and work with a diverse group of people across many functions

Bonus Points

• Familiarity with machine learning techniques
• Experience writing Go in production systems
• Familiarity with Python and modern open source ML libraries (Pytorch, Tensorflow, etc.)
• Experience with AWS infrastructure

Perks

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. 

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Job ID: TW8779