Discord Realtime Infrastructure team is hiring a Software Engineer to build and operate large-scale, reliable and performant distributed systems that power Discord's text chat infrastructure.

What you'll be doing:

  • Build and operate large-scale, reliable and performant distributed systems
  • Collaborate with product teams to create new features
  • Ensure Discord “just works”
  • Write code and manage infrastructure
  • Work with a team responsible for high-scale communication platform services

Requirements / What you should have:

  • 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
  • Familiarity with open source software and willingness to dig into source code

Bonus points:

  • Experience with Elixir
  • Experience with cloud environments (GCP, AWS)
  • Knowledge of devops tools like Salt, Terraform or Kubernetes
  • Contributed to open source projects
  • Experience building Discord bots or apps

Location: Candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area. Relocation assistance may be available.

Compensation: The US base salary range for this full-time position is $160,000 to $180,000 plus equity and benefits.