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Discord · 2 days ago

Senior Software Engineer - Media Infrastructure

positionSan Francisco, CA
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
senioritySenior Level
money$183K/yr - $202K/yr
date5+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Solve incredibly hard scaling challenges.
Ensure systems are fast, reliable, and efficient.
Collaborate with product teams to add new features.
Write code and manage media infrastructure.
Improve media ingest & delivery at every point in the stack.
Be data-driven, ensuring processes can be monitored and measuring impact with data.
Work with a talented team of engineers to enhance media capabilities.

Qualification

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Backend SystemsDistributed SystemsOpen-Source SoftwareSource CodeTrade-OffsVideo CodecsImage CodecsDebuggingOptimizationFull Stack DevelopmentProblem-SolvingEffective CommunicationLeadershipRustPythonIOSAndroidMedia transcodingPlaybackIntegrated video productsOpen-source librariesFFmpegLibavReact Native VideoExoplayerCloud environmentsGCPAWSDevOps toolsSalt

Required

5+ years of experience in writing and designing backend systems.
Experience solving complex problems within distributed systems
Experience operating systems handling over 1M+ queries per second.
Familiarity with open-source software and the ability to dive into source code to find answers.
A knack for making practical trade-offs when leading projects to ensure constant progress.
Strong literacy in video & image codecs and compatibility.
Proven ability to debug, fix, and optimize encoding issues.
Effective working across the full stack, from client to origin.

Preferred

Experience with Rust or Python.
Experience with iOS or Android media transcoding and playback.
In-depth experience building integrated video products using open-source libraries like FFmpeg, Libav, React Native Video, or Exoplayer.
Familiarity with cloud environments (GCP, AWS, etc.).
Knowledge of DevOps tools like Salt or Terraform.
Contributions to open-source projects.
Interest or passion for the Discord platform. Extra thumbs up if you've created bots or apps on our platform!

Benefits

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Company

Discord

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Discord is an online voice, video, and text communication platform designed for creating communities.
dateFounded in 2015
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size501-1,000 employees
web-link
https://discord.com

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$995.41M
Key Investors
Flat CapitalDragoneer Investment GroupSony Interactive Entertainment
2022-11-22Series I· Undisclosed
2022-03-12Secondary Market· $10.86M
2022-03-03Secondary Market· $1.95M

Leadership Team

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Ben Shanken
VP of Product
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Sergei Sorokin
VP Product
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