Discord · 11 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer, Multi Cloud
San Francisco Bay Area
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$196K/yr - $220K/yr
5+ years expDiscord is a platform used by over 200 million people for gaming and social interaction. They are hiring a senior software engineer to help define and deliver their Platform as a Service (PAAS) mission, focusing on building infrastructure tools that enhance the developer experience and accelerate engineering efforts across the company.
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Responsibilities
You'll work with customer engineering teams to ensure we’re building solutions that developers love using day-in and day-out
You’ll work with the Internal Development Experience (IDX) team to ensure an easy path to go from development through staging into production, and
You’ll work with the Platform Security team in order to secure every path to production
You’ll ship Rust code to YAY, our in-house deployment tooling built around Google Kubernetes Engine and Temporal
You’ll expose the full flexibility of Kubernetes for users while abstracting the complexities away
You’ll build tools to manage the configuration, observability, and scaling characteristics of our infrastructure
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience in software development with a focus on tooling, infrastructure, and automation
Experience working in multi-milestone and even multi-quarter projects
Expertise and empathy when troubleshooting issues with customer engineering teams
Expertise using and building upon the primitives of standard cloud infrastructure tooling like Kubernetes, Docker
Experience developing in cloud-based environments (we use Google Cloud; knowledge of Amazon Web Services and/or Azure also great!)
Experience with infrastructure-as-code tooling (we use Terraform)
Broad experience across many domains and technologies and comfort in diving into something new
Preferred
You have deep experience with CI, build, and deployment technologies like Buildkite, Bazel, and Terraform
You've built and deployed your own Kubernetes operator
You have experience with cloud networking tools like istio, envoy, etc
You're already using Rust regularly
You've used Datadog and/or Sentry and are comfortable supporting application observability in those platforms
You've built open source software integrated by other developers
You've worked with a security engineering team to threat model your work
Benefits
Equity
Benefits
Relocation assistance may be available
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
Mike Polner
VP, Global Head of Marketing
Bob Bahramipour
Head of Ecosystem Partnerships
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