Senior Software Engineer, Discord
Platform as a Service
$196-220.5k
+ Equity
More information about location
1 day a week in office
Voice, video and text communication platform
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Voice, video and text communication platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$196-220.5k
+ Equity
More information about location
1 day a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help friends and communities come together to hang out and explore their interests.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in software development with a focus on tooling, infrastructure, and automation
- Experience working in multi-milestone and even multi-quarter projects
- Expertise and empathy when troubleshooting issues with customer engineering teams
- Expertise using and building upon the primitives of standard cloud infrastructure tooling like Kubernetes, Docker
- Experience developing in cloud-based environments (we use Google Cloud; knowledge of Amazon Web Services and/or Azure also great!)
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tooling (we use Terraform)
- Broad experience across many domains and technologies and comfort in diving into something new
Desirable
- You have deep experience with CI, build, and deployment technologies like Buildkite, Bazel, and Terraform
- You’ve built and deployed your own Kubernetes operator
- You have experience with cloud networking tools like istio, envoy, etc
- You’re already using Rust regularly
- You’ve used Datadog and/or Sentry and are comfortable supporting application observability in those platforms
- You’ve built open source software integrated by other developers
- You’ve worked with a security engineering team to threat model your work
What the job involves
- Discord is hiring a technical, hands-on, empathetic senior software engineer to help define and deliver our Platform as a Service (PAAS) mission: build platform solutions to accelerate every Engineer at our company
- With your expertise in building and using best-in-class infrastructure tools, you’ll equip our engineering organization with tools to move quickly and deliver features that bring millions of people together
- As a senior engineer on the PAAS team, you’ll collaborate with the team to deliver forward-looking, customer-centric tooling
- You’ll make sure our solutions are crafted for a friction-free developer experience, have outsized impact across nearly every Engineering team, and help us articulate the golden path from development into production
- You’ll be reporting to the Senior Engineering Manager for Platform Engineering, ensuring we build scalable, secure-by-default, and easy-to-use infrastructure tooling
- You'll work with customer engineering teams to ensure we’re building solutions that developers love using day-in and day-out
- You’ll work with the Internal Development Experience (IDX) team to ensure an easy path to go from development through staging into production, and
- You’ll work with the Platform Security team in order to secure every path to production
- You’ll ship Rust code to YAY, our in-house deployment tooling built around Google Kubernetes Engine and Temporal
- You’ll expose the full flexibility of Kubernetes for users while abstracting the complexities away
- You’ll build tools to manage the configuration, observability, and scaling characteristics of our infrastructure
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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