# Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

**Company**: Discord
**Location**: San Francisco Bay Area
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $160,000 to $180,000 + equity + benefits
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/discord/jobs/8545663002?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_752923d5-522

## Description

We are seeking a Software Engineer, Distributed Systems to join our Core Tech Engineering department. As a member of our team, you will be responsible for building and operating large-scale, reliable, and performant distributed systems. You will collaborate with product teams to create new features and ensure that Discord "just works". You will write code and manage our infrastructure, working with a talented team of engineers who have built one of the largest communication platforms in the world.

Responsibilities:

- 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 our infrastructure

Requirements:

- 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

- Familiar with open source software, and not afraid to dig into the source code of a library to find the answer you're looking for

Bonus Points:

- Experience with Elixir

- Experience working with systems deployed in a cloud environment (GCP, AWS, etc.)

- Knowledge of devops tools like Salt, Terraform, or k8s

- You have built or contributed to open source projects

- You are a Discord power user and have built bots or apps interacting with our platform

Candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties). Relocation assistance may be available.

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

## Skills

### Required
- backend systems
- distributed systems
- complex problem-solving
- critical tier 0 services
- monitoring and alerting best practices
- open source software

### Nice to have
- Elixir
- cloud environment
- devops tools
- open source projects
- Discord power user

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