Staff Software Engineer, Realtime Infrastructure - Remote

Overview

Discord is focused on making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games. The Real Time Infrastructure team is responsible for building, maintaining, and scaling the systems that power chat, push notifications, presence, and more for our users.

In Short

• Build and operate large-scale, reliable and performant distributed systems.
• Collaborate with product and infrastructure teams.
• Deliver what matters most to users.
• 7+ years of experience required.
• Strong understanding of observability and monitoring.
• Flexibility in undefined environments.
• Familiarity with large existing codebases.
• Bonus points for knowledge in Elixir, Erlang, or Rust.
• Experience with NoSQL databases.
• Knowledge of DevOps tools.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience building performant distributed systems.
• Genuine interest in solving complex technical problems.
• Strong understanding of observability and monitoring.
• Flexibility in undefined environments.
• Familiarity with reading and writing code in large existing codebases.
• Demonstrated capability in collaborating with other engineering teams.
• A wide range of experience across many domains and technologies.

Benefits

• Competitive salary range.
• Equity options.
• Comprehensive benefits package.
• Opportunity to work with a talented team.
• Contribute to open source projects.