Staff Software Engineer - Notifications Platform

3 Months ago • 7 Years + • Backend Development • $223,000 PA - $245,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Staff Software Engineer will play a crucial role in building Discord's unified notification system, handling tens of billions of notifications daily across various platforms (push, SMS, email, in-app). Responsibilities include gathering requirements, designing and developing this system from scratch, ensuring reliable and efficient user engagement, and establishing robust data collection for insights and improvements. The role also involves scaling processes for hundreds of millions of users and mentoring other engineers.
Must have:
  • 7+ years building high-performance distributed systems
  • Strong understanding of observability and monitoring
  • Experience with large codebases
  • Collaboration with engineering teams
  • Data-driven design validation
Good to have:
  • Proficiency in Python, Elixir, or Rust
  • Kubernetes deployment experience
  • GCP Pub/Sub or message brokers
  • NoSQL database experience (Cassandra, Scylla)
  • Open-source project contributions

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.

The Notifications Platform team is creating a unified system to deliver tens of billions of notifications a day to our users, across mobile push, SMS, email, and in-app. As a Staff Software Engineer on the team you will gather requirements, design and develop this system from scratch! Your work will ensure that Discord is able to reliably and efficiently engage users with relevant, timely information, while at the same time capturing data to generate insights and drive improvements.

What you'll be doing:

  • Building a platform that consolidates methods of sending notifications to our users
  • Defining the technical and functional requirements of the platform
  • Instrumenting services to establish a robust data collection pipeline
  • Scaling processes to handle hundreds of millions of users efficiently and reliably
  • Coaching and mentoring other engineers, enabling their development

What You Should Have:

  • 7+ years of experience building high-performance distributed systems.
  • Genuine interest and enthusiasm in solving complex technical problems, investigating regressions, and finding ways to improve our systems' performance.
  • Strong understanding of observability and monitoring.
  • Flexibility in undefined environments and excitement about devising solutions for complex technical challenges.
  • Familiarity with reading and writing code in large existing codebases.
  • Demonstrated capability and empathy when collaborating with other engineering teams to solve issues.
  • A wide range of experience across many domains and technologies, and a willingness to venture into new ones.
  • A desire to validate design decisions with data.

Bonus points:

  • Proficiency with Python, Elixir or Rust
  • Experience deploying scalable services on Kubernetes
  • Experience working with the GCP Pub/Sub service or other message brokers
  • Experience working with NoSQL databases (Cassandra, Scylla etc).
  • You have built or contributed to open source projects.


#LI-Remote

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $223,000 to $245,000 + 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!

Check out our inclusion, diversity and purpose efforts, company principles, or learn more about the Life @ Discord experience!

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About The Company

Founded in 2015, Discord is a voice, video and text app that helps friends and communities come together to hang out and explore their interests - from artists and activists, to study groups, sneakerheads, plant parents, and more. With 150 million monthly users across 19 million active communities, called servers, Discord has grown to become one of the most popular communications services in the world. Discord was built without selling ads or user data and instead, offers a premium subscription called Nitro that gives users special perks like higher quality streams and fun customizations.


And we're hiring! If this strikes a chord with you, come build belonging with us: https://discordapp.com/jobs for openings.

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