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Discord · 3 weeks ago

Software Engineer - Realtime Infrastructure

positionSan Francisco Bay Area, CA
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
seniorityEntry, Mid Level
money$160K/yr - $180K/yr
date2+ years exp

Discord is a platform used by over 200 million people monthly, primarily for gaming. The Realtime Infrastructure team is responsible for building and maintaining critical services that ensure the reliability and performance of Discord's text chat infrastructure, directly impacting the platform's success and scalability.

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Responsibilities

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

Qualification

Distributed systemsBackend systems designCritical tier 0 servicesMonitoringAlertingCloud environment GCPCloud environment AWSOpen source softwareDevOps toolsElixirBuilding bots/apps

Required

2+ years of experience writing and designing backend systems
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

Preferred

Experience with Elixir
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
Candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties)

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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-size501-1000 employees
web-link
https://discord.com

H1B Sponsorship

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Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$995.41M
Key Investors
Flat CapitalDragoneer Investment GroupSony Interactive Entertainment
2024-03-01Secondary Market
2022-11-22Series I
2022-03-12Secondary Market· $10.86M

Leadership Team

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Stanislav Vishnevskiy
CTO & Co-Founder
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