200+ applicants

Company

Discord · 16 hours ago

Staff Software Engineer - Notifications Platform

San Francisco, CA

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$223K/yr - $245K/yr

7+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Building a platform that consolidates methods of sending notifications to our users

Defining the technical and functional requirements of the platform

Instrumenting services to establish a robust data collection pipeline

Scaling processes to handle hundreds of millions of users efficiently and reliably

Coaching and mentoring other engineers, enabling their development

Qualification

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Building distributed systemsMonitoringCoachingObservabilityMentoringPythonElixirRustKubernetesGCP Pub/SubNoSQL databasesLarge codebasesOpen source projectsData-driven design

Required

7+ years of experience building high-performance 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.

A desire to validate design decisions with data.

Preferred

Proficiency with Python, Elixir or Rust

Experience deploying scalable services on Kubernetes

Experience working with the GCP Pub/Sub service or other message brokers

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

You have built or contributed to open source projects.

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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