Senior Engineering Manager, Discord
Database Infrastructure
$304-342k
+ Equity
1+ day a week in office
Voice, video and text communication platform
Job no longer available
Voice, video and text communication platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$304-342k
+ Equity
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
- 2+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager
- Extensive experience managing large databases at scale and in complex environments
- Worked with high scale distributed systems used by tens or hundreds of millions of users
- Collaborate effectively with a variety of teams across multiple functions
- Excel in undefined environments and get excited about finding pragmatic solutions to complex technical or organizational challenges
- A passion for coaching and developing engineers, but also love to dig into technical problems when the opportunity arises
- You keep up with the industry trends and continue to grow your technical knowledge and skills
What the job involves
- Our Database Infrastructure team is the backbone of Discord's live user data
- Responsible for all databases and data services, this team ensures that everything from messages to user profiles is stored durably and reliably for our 200M+ active users
- As Engineering Manager of the Database Infrastructure, you'll lead a team of exceptional engineers who build and maintain these mission-critical systems
- You'll oversee the operation and scaling of our databases, while also providing essential storage primitives that power innovation across our engineering organization
- This role places you at the helm of some of Discord's most vital infrastructure, directly impacting the experience of hundreds of millions of users worldwide
- Guide the technical vision and roadmap for Discord's Database Infrastructure
- Grow and manage a team of talented infrastructure engineers
- Ensure Discord just works by building and operating reliable and efficient infrastructure
- Work with leaders from all over the company to build new features
- Our languages: Rust and Python
- Our databases: Scylla, Elasticsearch, and Postgres
- Our systems are deployed in Google Cloud
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
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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 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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