• If the thought of managing the storage, processing, and delivery of over 100PB of user-generated media across millions of Discord users thrills you - let's talk!
• 5+ years of experience in writing and designing backend systems
• Experience solving complex problems within distributed systems
• Experience operating systems handling over 1M+ queries per second
• Familiarity with open-source software and the ability to dive into source code to find answers
• A knack for making practical trade-offs when leading projects to ensure constant progress
• Strong literacy in video & image codecs and compatibility
• Proven ability to debug, fix, and optimize encoding issues
• Effective working across the full stack, from client to origin

Desirable

• We're on the lookout for an Senior Software Engineer for our Media Infrastructure team!
• We're all about ensuring these media are managed efficiently, securely, cost-effectively
• As a Media Infrastructure engineer at Discord, you'll be at the forefront of media innovation
• You’ll oversee the entire lifecycle of media on our platform and create the core components that enable our product teams to introduce new media features
• Solve incredibly hard scaling challenges
• Ensure our systems are fast, reliable, and efficient
• Collaborate with product teams to add new features
• Write code and manage our media infrastructure
• Be empowered to improve media ingest & delivery at every point in the stack
• Be data-driven, ensuring processes can be monitored and measuring impact with data
• Work with a talented team of engineers who have built one of the largest media serving infrastructures in the world