Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

Discord is seeking a Software Engineer for its Realtime Infrastructure team, focusing on building and maintaining large-scale distributed systems critical to its platform's reliability and performance.

The ideal candidate will have experience designing and operating distributed systems, collaborating with product teams, and ensuring high availability and performance of services.

Responsibilities:

• Build and operate large-scale, reliable, and performant distributed systems
• Collaborate with product teams to create new features
• Ensure Discord's services are highly available and performant
• Write code and manage infrastructure
• Work with a talented team of engineers

Requirements:

• 2+ years of experience writing and designing backend systems
• Experience solving complex distributed system problems
• Experience operating and maintaining critical services
• Knowledge of monitoring and alerting best practices
• Familiarity with open-source software

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with Elixir or Rust
• Experience working with cloud environments (GCP, AWS, etc.)
• Knowledge of DevOps tools like Salt, Terraform, or Kubernetes
• Contribution to open-source projects
• Experience building bots or apps interacting with Discord's platform

The role offers a salary range of $180,000 to $220,000, plus equity and benefits. Candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area.