Software Engineer, Distributed SystemsActive$180K–$220K

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

  • 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.

  • + years of experience writing and designing backend systems.

What they're looking for

  • Experience solving complex distributed system problems.
  • Experience operating and maintaining critical tier 0 services.
  • Knowledge of monitoring and alerting best practices.
  • 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.