Senior Staff Software Engineer, Discord
Platform Ecosystem
$263-289.5k
+ Equity
Voice, video and text communication platform
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Voice, video and text communication platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$263-289.5k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
Discord's mission is to help friends and communities come together to hang out and explore their interests.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years experience as a software engineer, with experience as a technical lead
- Strong technical depth with JavaScript, with expertise or a desire to learn TypeScript and React
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work well cross-functionally
- You actively seek out opportunities to mentor, coach, and sponsor other engineers in their career growth
- A strong product sense, maintain a high degree of empathy for your internal and external users and seek feedback from them about your work
- A strong sense of development ergonomics, and take pride in understanding your engineer customers
- Comfort working with ambiguity and get excited about working collaboratively to better define complex problems, figure out solutions, and then execute on them
- The ability how to strike a balance between speed and quality of features to create durable technology. You thrive on building scalable systems that are robust, failure-resistant, and easy to maintain
- A practice of keeping up with industry trends and assessing new technologies that can help us better solve problems
Desirable
- Experience building or maintaining developer-facing products, SDKs, libraries or services
- Practical experience building games, or tools to support game developers
- Experience with at least one popular gaming platform like Unity, Unreal Engine, Godot
- Strong open-source leadership or contributions
- Experience making hard tradeoffs between important goals to get the right things built quickly
What the job involves
- Discord is looking for a Senior Staff Engineer to join our Platform Ecosystem team to help lead the next era of Discord’s development platform
- You will oversee the technical roadmap for Apps and Activities, working across APIs, SDKs, and Developer tools
- You will work with teams across the organization including our Game Studios, Engineering, Product, Data Science, Design, Infrastructure, and Customer Success to ensure that the technical strategy meets our goals
- Come help us build the game platform that inspires the next generation of developers at Discord
- Collaborate with leadership and senior engineers to build and improve upon the technical roadmap for Discord’s Developer Platform
- Work across Platform Ecosystem teams to design and build SDKs, APIs and platform services
- Research and develop important new parts of the platform. Scrutinize and reason on technology and architecture choices, identify tradeoffs and challenges, and get support from the rest of the team
- Collaborate with other staff engineers and partners across the organization to ensure technical understanding to other systems, products, and vision
- Participate at all levels of ideation, implementation and release
- Mentor the next generation of technical leaders at Discord
- Have a genuine say in the details, and have fun doing it!
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 150 million active users in 19 million 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 Twitter, 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.
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Sep 2021
$500m
SERIES H
Dec 2020
$100m
SERIES H
Total funding: $979.3m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive medical insurance including Health, Dental and Vision
- Mental health resources and quarterly wellness stipends
- 16+ paid holidays, 4 weeks of PTO + use-what-you-need sick days
- Paid parental leave (plus fertility, adoption and other family planning benefits)
- Flexible long-term work options (remote and hybrid)
- Volunteer time off
- A diverse slate of Employee Resource Groups
- Plus commuter contributions and other perks for office-based employees
Company values
- Autonomy
- Mastery
- Purpose
- Compassion
Company HQ
Potrero Hill, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Jason Citron
(CEO)Started out as a programmer at Papaya Studio, Stormfront Studios and Doublefine Productions. Also founded OpenFeint, a global mobile social gaming company.
Worked as a Software Engineer at Casamba and then Kabam. Was Lead Software Engineer at GREE International, and founded social network Guildwork.com in 2009.
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