58 applicants

Company

Discord · 1 day ago

Staff Software Engineer, Realtime Infrastructure

San Francisco, CA

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$223K/yr - $246K/yr

7+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Build and operate large-scale, reliable and performant distributed systems to support Discord's real time features and services.

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

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

Qualification

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Distributed SystemsMonitoringNoSQL DatabasesElixirErlangRustObservabilityLinux InternalsDevOps ToolsPythonOpen Source Contribution

Required

7+ years of experience building performant distributed systems.

Genuine interest and enthusiasm in solving complex technical problems, investigating regressions, and finding ways to improve our systems' performance.

Strong understanding of observability and monitoring.

Flexibility in undefined environments and excitement about devising solutions for complex technical challenges.

Familiarity with reading and writing code in large existing codebases.

Demonstrated capability and empathy when collaborating with other engineering teams to solve issues.

A wide range of experience across many domains and technologies, and a willingness to venture into new ones.

Preferred

It's a plus if you're knowledgeable in Elixir, Erlang, or Rust.

Strong operating systems, distributed systems and concurrency control fundamentals.

Familiarity with Linux internals.

Experience working with NoSQL databases (Cassandra, Scylla etc).

Knowledge of DevOps tools like Salt, Terraform or Kubernetes.

You have built or contributed to open source projects.

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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

501-1000 employees

https://discord.com

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