Staff Software Engineer, Discord

• 7+ years of experience in software development with a focus on tooling, infrastructure, and automation
• Successfully led a reasonable sized project with a group of 4+ engineers
• You have the ability to create alignment with leaders in product, data science, and engineering
• Deep experience with CI, build, and deployment technologies like Github Actions, Buildkite, Docker, Kubernetes, Bazel, Packer, and Terraform
• Deep knowledge of operating systems and the software ecosystems that surround them
• Broad experience across many domains and technologies and a poised attitude when diving into something new
• A passion for building tools that help others succeed
• An ability to zoom out and consider the big picture, while also knowing when to zoom in on critical details

Desirable

• Collaborating with leadership, PMs, and other engineers across the company to build and iterate on a technical roadmap for Discord’s development ecosystem
• Coordinate and collaborate with other staff-engineers and stakeholders across the organization to ensure technical alignment around yours and other’s vision
• Pushing the limits and evolving the software development lifecycle alongside a constantly evolving Discord
• Coach and mentor the next generation of technical leaders at Discord
• Providing fast and stable builds across our entire platform using tools like Bazel, Docker, Nix, and K8s
• Building the core libraries and CLI frameworks that provide a unified tooling ecosystem
• Improving our existing build, test, and deploy tools or building them from the ground up

• Comprehensive medical insurance including Health, Dental and Vision
• Mental health resources and quarterly wellness stipends
• 16+ paid holidays, 4 weeks of PTO + use-what-you-need sick days
• Paid parental leave (plus fertility, adoption and other family planning benefits)
• Flexible long-term work options (remote and hybrid)
• Volunteer time off
• A diverse slate of Employee Resource Groups
• Plus commuter contributions and other perks for office-based employees

Total funding: $979.3m

Discord is an industry giant in the chat app space. The free platform has rapidly become one of the most popular services in the sector since being founded in 2015. It counts over 150 million active users in 19 million communities, successfully expanding beyond its original focus on video game players to become a broader social networking app and public forum.