C++ Senior Software Engineer, Discord

• 4+ years crafting large, cross-platform software projects (Windows, MacOS, Android, iOS, or game console development),
• You write C++/Rust code that makes computers purr, not cry (aka: understanding of memory management, multi-threading, and low-level optimization techniques)
• You build real-time applications (media applications, games) where milliseconds matter
• You know your way around CPU, GPU and memory profiling and can identify bottlenecks, optimize critical paths, and manage resource constraints effectively
• You design experiments that prove (not just suggest) improvements

Desirable

• The mission of Discord's AV Client team is to give our users an outstanding voice, video, and game-streaming experience across Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS
• That’s a lot of platforms! We write native code using platform-specific APIs to provide the optimal experience wherever people use Discord
• As a Senior Software Engineer on our AV Client team, your code will be the difference between 'Can you hear me?' and legendary gaming moments that friends talk about for years
• Build the core libraries that power conversations for millions of users (Typescript, Rust, and C++)
• Continuously improve video quality and performance end to end across desktop, browser, and mobile platforms
• Design and run experiments with proper success criteria and statistical rigor – because hunches don't answer the big question: “Does this actually make calls better?”
• Play detective with audio/video gremlins hiding in endless configurations of user hardware