26 applicants

Company

Discord · 6 hours ago

Software Engineer, Persistence Infrastructure

San Francisco, CA or Remote (U.S.)

Full-time

Remote

Entry, Mid Level

$159K/yr - $175K/yr

2+ years exp

Maximize your interview chances

AdvertisingApps

H1B Sponsor Likely

Insider Connection @Discord

Discover valuable connections within the company who might provide insights and potential referrals.
Get 3x more responses when you reach out via email instead of LinkedIn.

Responsibilities

Building and operating large-scale, reliable and performant systems with Rust, ScyllaDB, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, and Linux.

Collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to develop primitives that provide compounding leverage for Discord engineering by reliably storing and serving user data while protecting the safety of our user data.

Exercise "First Principles Thinking" to always deliver what matters most to our users.

Work with a talented team of engineers who have built one of the largest communication platforms in the world.

Qualification

Find out how your skills align with this job's requirements. If anything seems off, you can easily click on the tags to select or unselect skills to reflect your actual expertise.

RustScyllaDBPostgreSQLLinuxCassandraDistributed systemsBigTableDynamoDBGoJavaCC++Concurrency controlDevOps toolsSaltTerraformKubernetes

Required

2+ years of experience building backend systems and infrastructure

Proficiency with at least one statically-typed programming language: e.g. Rust, Go, Java, C, C++

Experience with distributed and high-availability databases: e.g. ScyllaDB, Cassandra, BigTable, DynamoDB, Postgres w/HA, etc.

Knowledge of operating systems, distributed systems and concurrency control

Comfortable working in fast paced environments.

Preferred

Experience with Cassandra or Scylla

Experience with Rust

Experience with Linux internals

Knowledge of DevOps tools like Salt, Terraform or Kubernetes.

Benefits

Equity

Benefits

Company

Discord

Glassdoor

3.0

Discord is an online voice, video, and text communication platform designed for creating communities.

Founded in 2015

San Francisco, California, USA

501-1,000 employees

https://discord.com

H1B Sponsorship

Discord has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)

Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship

Represents job field similar to this job

Trends of Total Sponsorships

2023 (12)

2022 (31)

2021 (15)

2020 (7)