Staff Software Engineer, Discord
Notifications Platform
$263-289k
+ Equity
Voice, video and text communication platform
Open for applications
Voice, video and text communication platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$263-289k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
Discord's mission is to help friends and communities come together to hang out and explore their interests.
Role
Who you are
- 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
Desirable
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
Our take
Discord is an industry giant in the chat app space. The free platform has rapidly become one of the most popular services in the sector since being founded in 2015. It counts over 150 million active users in 19 million communities, successfully expanding beyond its original focus on video game players to become a broader social networking app and public forum.
Discord's userbase has grown rapidly as remote work has become the norm and a new generation of internet users has come online, attracted to its youthful presentation and plethora of gaming and social tools. It has since fended off takeover bids from Microsoft and interest from other giants such as Amazon and Twitter, and has grown into a profitable company, funded by optional subscription fees and commissions from sales through the platform.
Discord’s remarkable growth, however, is not without obstacles. The company faces competition from deep-pocketed giants like Facebook, and regulatory concerns from those worried about the platform’s relatively light chat moderation. However, the company has the resources and expertise to adapt. For example, the acquisition of harassment detection software company Sentropy will go a long way towards placating the concerns of critics, as will the 2024 acquisition of teen app Gas used to give anonymous compliments to friends. All of these purchases are part of Discord's move to expand out of its mostly gaming-focused customer base.
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Insights
28% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Sep 2021
$500m
SERIES H
Dec 2020
$100m
SERIES H
Total funding: $979.3m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive medical insurance including Health, Dental and Vision
- Mental health resources and quarterly wellness stipends
- 16+ paid holidays, 4 weeks of PTO + use-what-you-need sick days
- Paid parental leave (plus fertility, adoption and other family planning benefits)
- Flexible long-term work options (remote and hybrid)
- Volunteer time off
- A diverse slate of Employee Resource Groups
- Plus commuter contributions and other perks for office-based employees
Company HQ
Potrero Hill, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Jason Citron
(CEO)Started out as a programmer at Papaya Studio, Stormfront Studios and Doublefine Productions. Also founded OpenFeint, a global mobile social gaming company.
Worked as a Software Engineer at Casamba and then Kabam. Was Lead Software Engineer at GREE International, and founded social network Guildwork.com in 2009.
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