Senior Software Engineer, Ads Infrastructure

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.

This position is US based only.

Come build the future of Discord’s business with us! We are looking for impact-focused engineers to join our world-class Revenue group as we accelerate Discord’s growth through the creation of compelling paid products. These products allow us to grow our business while keeping Discord’s core functionality free. You will be reporting to the Director of Ads engineering. To learn more about Discord Engineering, take a look at our engineering blog.

What You'll Be Doing

• Design, build and maintain systems for delivering the best ad to each user while respecting obligations to advertisers. Collaborate with engineers on the team, and other teams such as Data Platform, Serving Infrastructure, and Persistence Infrastructure to understand requirements and build systems to meet them
• Solve complex domain problems in the areas of high-volume and accurate data collection, ads ranking, budget pacing, and frequency capping
• Partner with stakeholders and engineers across a small set of teams to define problems and build solutions into high scale, reliable and observable infrastructure
• Own projects end to end — you’ll be responsible for working with Product and other stakeholders to refine requirements, creating technical designs and specs, implementing changes, and seeing projects through to launch and maintenance

What You Should Have

• 5+ years of software engineering experience. We primarily work in the backend (Python, Rust, and Elixir) to build systems for serving ads. We build on top of systems like Flink, PubSub, Pulsar, and Airflow. You have familiarity with similar systems and a background building large scale systems, including in database design, querying, and data caching
• You have a data and infrastructure mindset. You are excited to dig into large datasets to validate data and algorithms, and enjoy designing well-built, available and observable systems. You also are familiar with querying and presentation of complex data. You have experience working with infrastructure in cloud environments such as GCS, and using observability tools similar to Datadog
• You stay up to date on relevant technology trends and developments. You view challenges and mistakes as learning opportunities while building upon your successes. You push yourself and those around you to improve
• You have a product sense. You maintain a high degree of empathy for your internal and external users, and seek feedback from them about your work
• You love business impact. You get excited seeing numbers go up (or down!) as a result of your work

Bonus Points

Experience working in ad tech, especially on ads delivery infrastructure, budget pacing, and pricing models

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The US base salary range for this full-time position is $183,000 to $201,500 + 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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