Software Engineer, Discord
Traffic Infrastructure
$160-180k
+ Equity
Voice, video and text communication platform
Job no longer available
Voice, video and text communication platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$160-180k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help friends and communities come together to hang out and explore their interests.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of backend software engineering experience
- Knowledge of networking fundamentals,
- Experience working with cloud providers like GCP or AWS,
- Experience validating assumptions with data and digging deeper when results are inconclusive,
Desirable
- Familiarity with Cloud Networking / Service Mesh (e.g. Envoy)
- Experience working with Kubernetes
What the job involves
- As a Software Engineer on this team, you'll scale our infrastructure to serve billions of requests per day, defend against malicious traffic and facilitate seamless communication between internal services
- You'll maintain critical systems that support nearly every function of our platform, ensuring an efficient and reliable experience for hundreds of millions of users worldwide
- Become a subject matter expert for network infrastructure on a global scale
- Troubleshoot complex problems across many layers of Discord’s architecture
- Support the growth and stability of nearly every function of Discord
- Establish primitives that allow other teams to confidently and efficiently serve user requests
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 200M active users in 19M 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 X, 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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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 HQ
Potrero Hill, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Stanislav Vishnevskiy
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously worked as a Software Engineer at Casamba and then Kabam. Also worked as a Lead Software Engineer at GREE International, and founded social network Guildwork.com in 2009.
Humam Sakhnini
(CEO)Humam joined the Discord team in 2025 as CEO. Prior to this, he was the VIce Chairman and Chief Strategy & Talent Officer at Activision Blizzard as well as the CFO/President at King. He also spent 8 years at McKinsey & Company as a Partner.
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