Software Engineer (Distributed Systems)

• The Realtime Infrastructure team is responsible for building and maintaining some of Discord’s highest scale and most critical services. Those systems are at the core of our text chat infrastructure and facilitate the dispatching of every update to our users sessions. This role will have a significant impact on Discord’s overall reliability and performance
• It will also help our product teams build new features on top of our infrastructure. This team is small but critical, and its work has a direct impact on Discord’s success and ability to scale. This role reports to the Senior Engineering Manager of Realtime Infrastructure
• Build and operate large-scale, reliable and performant distributed systems
• Collaborate with product teams to create new features
• Ensure Discord “just works”
• Write code but also manage our infrastructure
• Work with a talented team of engineers who have built one of the largest communication platforms in the world

Benefits

• Discord HQ: At Discord, we believe great work can happen anywhere, whether in person or virtually. Our flexible work model empowers our people to choose where they work best: at home, in one of our offices like our San Francisco HQ, or a mix of both.
• Grow together: Look forward to developing both professionally and personally alongside your colleagues at Discord. All of our managers go through a leadership program, and we offer enriching trainings for everyone. No matter what your interests or skills are, there’s a place on our platform for you to find and build belonging.
• Money matters: Discord strives to offer fair and competitive compensation packages, including equity. You’ll have room to grow and be rewarded based on your contributions and impact at the company. Take advantage of our retirement offerings (including 401k matching in the US) to meet your financial goals.
• Health benefits; At Discord, we health-care about you! We offer medical, dental, vision, reproductive, gender-affirming, and mental healthcare to our employees.
• Family support: Spend some quality time with the next generation with 12+ weeks parental leave, as well as fertility, adoption, and surrogacy benefits.
• R&R: Stay refreshed with four weeks of PTO, 16 paid holidays each year including a week off for the winter holidays, and flexible sick time (which includes mental health days).
• Wellness on us: Take advantage of a $375 quarterly stipend for your gym membership or other activities to keep you feeling great.
• Giving back: Whatever social cause you’re passionate about, take a day (or two) off to make an impact. While you’re at it, take advantage of $1,000/year in donation matching to charitable organizations!- Knowledge of monitoring and alerting best practices
• 2+ years of experience writing and designing backend systems
• Familiar with open source software, and not afraid to dig into the source code of a library to find the answer you’re looking for
• Experience operating and maintaining critical tier 0 services
• Experience solving complex distributed system problems
• Experience with Elixir or Rust
• Experience working with systems deployed in a cloud environment (GCP, AWS, etc.)
• Knowledge of devops tools like Salt,Terraform or k8s
• You have built or contributed to open source projects
• You are a Discord power user and have built bots or apps interacting with our platform