The opportunity
Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does: play video games. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on…
What you'll do
Own complex safety infrastructure projects end-to-end, from initial design: through post-launch monitoring and iteration
Build and maintain production systems that operate at massive scale, participating in on-call rotations
Apply an adversarial mindset to your work: thinking through security, abuse scenarios, edge cases, and scalability concerns
Collaborate closely with Trust & Safety, ML, Policy, and product teams to: understand requirements and deliver effective solutions
Break down large, multi-milestone projects into prioritized work streams: while managing stakeholders and dependencies across teams
Contribute to technical design discussions and write RFCs; help establish: best practices and maintain a high quality bar through code reviews and mentorship
What they're looking for
- + years of professional software engineering experience focused on backend services and/or infrastructure
- Strong programming skills in Python; we work occasionally in Rust and TypeScript as well
- Experience building and operating distributed systems and production services at scale such as GCP or AWS
- Strong debugging skills and ability to navigate complex, multi-service codebases
