Discord · 22 hours ago
Software Engineer - Realtime Infrastructure
San Francisco Bay Area
Full-time
Onsite
Entry, Mid Level
$160K/yr - $180K/yr
2+ years expDiscord is a platform used by over 200 million people for gaming and communication, and they are seeking a Software Engineer for their Realtime Infrastructure team. This role involves building and maintaining high-scale services that are critical to the platform's performance and reliability, while collaborating with product teams to develop new features.
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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
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
Benefits
Equity
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Company
Discord
Discord is an online voice, video, and text communication platform designed for creating communities.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$995.41MKey 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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Board Member & Advisor to the CEO
Stanislav Vishnevskiy
CTO & Co-Founder
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