Senior Software Engineer, Audio/Video

Discord is used by over 200 million people every month for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does on our platform: play video games. Over 90% of our users play games, spending a combined 1.5 billion hours playing thousands of unique titles on Discord each month. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games.

Join our journey to create the best cross-platform application for messaging and real-time interactions! The Audio & Video engineering team at Discord owns the technology and end-to-end experience of audio/video across desktop and mobile. The team’s mission is to give our users an outstanding voice, video, and client experience.

We are looking for passionate, energetic and self-motived individuals, who are user-focused and obsessed with quality and performance to join the Core AV team.

What you'll be doing:

• Develop core libraries and infrastructure supporting high-quality, low-latency communications between hundreds of millions of users.
• Own Discord core audio and video functionalities across desktop, browser, and mobile.
• Continuously improve video quality and performance end to end.
• Work with customer support team troubleshooting real-world end-user audio/video issues.

What you should have:

• 4+ years experience working on large, cross-platform software projects.
• Comfort writing high-performance code in C++.
• Intimate knowledge with Windows, MacOS, Android, iOS or game console development.
• Knowledge of performance metrics such as CPU, GPU and memory management.
• Enjoyment in coming up with pragmatic solutions to concrete problems using first principles thinking.
• Obsession with user impact and pursue craftsmanship with a high quality of work.
• Strong communication skills and thrive in small, collaborative, energetic teams.
• Comfort planning rollouts and tracking success through experiments.

Bonus Points:

• Comfort writing high-performance code in Rust.
• Working experience with WebRTC, SDP, SRTP, DTLS.
• Experience working with common audio/video codecs such as Opus, VP8, H.264, etc.
• Working experience with media pipeline on platforms supported by Discord.
• Experience with Chromium or Mozilla internals.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $196,000 to $220,500 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits.

Why Discord? 

Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Your future is just a click away!

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