Senior Software Engineer - Ads Delivery - Remote

Overview

Discord is used by over 200 million people every month for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does on our platform: play video games. Over 90% of our users play games, spending a combined 1.5 billion hours playing thousands of unique titles on Discord each month. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games.

In Short

• You'll be joining the cutting edge of Discord’s business strategy, working on high-impact ads infrastructure that aims to build Discord’s next big revenue stream.
• Your work will directly influence how ads are delivered across Discord, affecting millions of users and supporting advertisers and game publishers.
• You'll tackle complex optimization problems within distributed systems, contributing to the evolution of our ads server that blends real-time systems with advanced math optimization problems.
• You'll play a key role in building an auction-based ads marketplace, allowing market dynamics to dictate the best ad outcomes.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, particularly in backend development with systems like Python, Rust, and Elixir.
• Experience with large-scale system design, including database design, querying, and data caching.
• Familiarity with cloud environments and observability tools such as Datadog.
• A technical leadership background with at least 2 years of experience leading teams in a technical capacity.
• Proficiency with event streaming tools like Kafka or PubSub.
• A data-driven mindset and excitement for designing robust systems through infrastructure and algorithm validation.
• A high degree of empathy for users, both internal and external, with a keen sense to seek feedback and continuously improve.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity options.
• Comprehensive benefits package.
• Opportunity to work on impactful projects.
• Collaborative and innovative work environment.