Staff Software Engineer, Discord

• 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

Desirable

• 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
• 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