Staff Software Engineer, Realtime Infrastructure

6 Months ago • 7 Years + • Backend Development • $223,000 PA - $245,500 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Discord seeks a Staff Software Engineer with 7+ years of experience building performant distributed systems. Must have strong understanding of observability, monitoring, and experience collaborating with other engineering teams. Bonus points for Elixir, Erlang, or Rust knowledge.
Must have:
  • Distributed Systems
  • Observability & Monitoring
  • Collaboration Skills
  • Large Codebases
Good to have:
  • Elixir, Erlang, Rust
  • Operating Systems
  • NoSQL Databases
  • DevOps Tools
Perks:
  • Equity
  • Benefits

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.

This position is US based only.

The Real Time Infrastructure team is responsible for building, maintaining, and scaling the systems that power chat, push notifications, presence, and more for our users. This role will have a significant impact on the quality and performance of these features, including features built on top of our infrastructure. This team is a small but impactful team, whose work has direct and critical impact on Discord's success and ability to scale. This role reports to the Engineering Manager of Real Time Infrastructure.

Example technical challenges that this team encounters include supporting the dispatch of more than 30 million messages per second and building the infrastructure that allows Discord Servers to grow their communities to more than 20 million users, such as Midjourney.

What you'll be doing:

- Build and operate large-scale, reliable and performant distributed systems to support Discord's real time features and services.
- Collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to develop primitives that provide compounding leverage for Discord engineering by reliably storing and serving user data, while also protecting the safety of our user data.
- Exercise "First Principles Thinking" to always deliver what matters most to our users.

What You Should Have:

- 7+ years of experience building performant 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.

Bonus points:

- It's a plus if you're knowledgeable in Elixir, Erlang, or Rust.
- Strong operating systems, distributed systems and concurrency control fundamentals.
- Familiarity with Linux internals.
- Experience working with NoSQL databases (Cassandra, Scylla etc).
- Knowledge of DevOps tools like Salt, Terraform or Kubernetes.
- You have built or contributed to open source projects.

Things that may interest you


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The US base salary range for this full-time position is $223,000 to $245,500 + 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!

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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