Senior Software Engineer, Discord

• 5+ years of experience writing and designing backend systems
• Experience solving complex distributed system problems
• Experience operating and maintaining critical tier 0 services
• Knowledge of monitoring and alerting best practices
• Familiar with open source software, and not afraid to dig into the source code of a library to find the answer you’re looking for
• Led complex projects in a team of junior and senior engineers

Desirable

• The Realtime Infrastructure team is responsible for building and maintaining some of Discord’s highest scale and most critical services. Those systems are at the core of our text chat infrastructure and facilitate the dispatching of every update to our users sessions
• This role will have a significant impact on Discord’s overall reliability and performance. It will also help our product teams build new features on top of our infrastructure.
• This team is small but critical, and its work has a direct impact on Discord's success and ability to scale. This role reports to the Senior Engineering Manager of Realtime Infrastructure
• Examples of technical challenges that this team has encountered in the past include supporting the dispatch of more than 30 million messages per second, or building the infrastructure that allows Discord Servers to grow their communities to more than 20 million users, such as Midjourney
• Build and operate large-scale, reliable and performant distributed systems
• Collaborate with product teams to create new features
• Ensure Discord “just works”
• Write code but also manage our infrastructure
• Work with a talented team of engineers who have built one of the largest communication platforms in the world

• 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.