Software Engineer, Discord

• 2+ years of experience working with backend systems
• You understand the basics of observability and monitoring
• You excel in navigating complex and distributed systems and are excited about finding solutions to complex technical challenges
• You are comfortable reading and writing code in large existing codebases
• You enjoy coming up with pragmatic solutions to concrete problems using first principles thinking
• You have strong communication skills and thrive in small, collaborative, energetic teams

Desirable

• Join us in working on what makes Discord feel like a live and upbeat place! Our team's mission is to create the primitives allowing us to connect our users to one another in real-time
• Practically speaking, it means we design and operate the core backend systems that allow more than 150M users to join their servers, have chats with their friends and receive real-time notifications when something interesting is happening on Discord. You will report to the Engineering Manager for Real-time Infrastructure
• Develop core primitives and infrastructure supporting real-time communication between hundreds of millions of users
• Collaborate with product engineering teams to add new features
• Ensure that our systems are reliable and that Discord just works
• Write code but also manage our infrastructure’s operations
• Work with a talented team of engineers who have built one of the largest communication platforms in the world