Senior Software Engineer - Desktop Platform - 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

• Build and maintain foundational components for Discord’s desktop clients.
• Interface directly with macOS/Windows operating system APIs to leverage platform-specific capabilities.
• Help drive engineering quality for desktop client performance, developing systems and processes to ensure quality can be optimized and sustainably maintained.
• Troubleshoot complex issues using advanced debugging tools and techniques.
• Support internal developers with desktop build environment and tooling.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience as a software engineer working on large, cross-platform desktop applications.
• You have experience with desktop performance and Electron and are excited by the challenge of delivering an incredible product to 200 million users.
• Expertise in either macOS or Windows applications.
• Strong technical depth with C++ and/or Rust.
• Exceptional problem-solving abilities, with a track record of diagnosing and resolving complex performance issues.
• You understand observability and monitoring and leverages this to solve system issues.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity options.
• Comprehensive benefits package.
• Opportunity to work on a product used by millions.
• Flexible work environment.
• Collaborative team culture.