Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform

1 Month ago • 5 Years +

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining data infrastructure and services. You will work with data engineers, scientists, software engineers, and product managers to create modern solutions for business insights and innovation. This role involves defining and executing the technical vision, designing data infrastructure, developing innovative data architectures, building monitoring systems, partnering with various teams, and promoting best practices. The role also involves providing technical leadership and staying updated with industry trends.
Must have:
  • 5+ years of software engineering experience with distributed systems or data infrastructure focus.
  • Expertise in building and maintaining scalable data platforms, including data ingestion and processing.
  • Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, or Rust.
  • Proficiency with open-source data projects and experience working with open-source communities.
  • Hands-on experience with modern data technologies such as Kafka, Spark, or Airflow/Dagster.
  • Deep understanding of database systems (e.g., SQL, NoSQL).
  • Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and microservices architecture.
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate and influence.
Good to have:
  • A strong passion for Discord and gaming.
  • Open source contributions to data-related projects.

Job Details

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.

We are seeking an accomplished and experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our dynamic team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining our data infrastructure and services. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including data engineers, data scientists, software engineers, and product managers, to deliver modern and bleeding-edge solutions that drive business insights and innovation. This role reports to our Director of Engineering, Data Platform.

To learn more about Discord’s Data Platform, read our engineering blog — including how we built our modern data stack leveraging open-source tools!

What You'll Be Doing

  • Define and execute the technical vision for Discord's data platform, enabling scalable, reliable, and performant data systems.
  • Design, implement, and optimize data infrastructure to process and analyze petabytes of data across millions of users.
  • Develop innovative data architectures to support analytics, machine learning, and operational insights.
  • Build monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure the health and performance of data services.
  • Partner with data scientists, data engineers, product managers, and leadership to align technical solutions with business goals.
  • Promote and drive best practices in data governance, security, and compliance across the organization.
  • Provide technical leadership, mentor junior engineers, and foster a culture of excellence and continuous improvement.
  • Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies in data platform.

What You Should Have

  • 5+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on large-scale distributed systems or data infrastructure.
  • Expertise in building and maintaining scalable data platforms, including data ingestion pipelines, stream processing, and batch processing systems.
  • Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, Rust, or similar.
  • Proficiency with open source data projects and experience working with open source communities.
  • Hands-on experience with modern data technologies such as Kafka, Spark, Flink, Airflow/Dagster, or similar.
  • Deep understanding of database systems (e.g., SQL, NoSQL, columnar storage) and data modeling principles.
  • Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), containerization tools (Docker, Kubernetes), and microservices architecture.
  • Excellent communication skills with a demonstrated ability to collaborate and influence across teams and levels.
  • Proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.

Bonus Points

  • A strong passion for Discord and gaming.
  • Open source contributions to data-related projects.

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The US base salary range for this full-time position is $196,000 to $245,000 + equity + 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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About The Company

Discord is a voice, video and text platform that helps friends come together to hang out, play games and have fun. When Jason Citron and Stanislav Vishnevskiy founded Discord in 2015 they had a hunch that multiplayer gaming would be the future of entertainment and that people would need a communications platform designed for them to talk with their gaming friends. Today, gaming has become the largest form of entertainment in the world, bigger than movies and music combined. It’s the fastest-growing as well. Discord makes it feel like you’re playing in the same room with friends.

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