Discord
Software Engineer, Distributed Systems
San Francisco Bay Area · Mid · Full-time
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About the role
- Those systems are at the core of our text chat infrastructure and facilitate the dispatching of every update to our users sessions.
- This role will have a significant impact on Discord's overall reliability and performance.
Responsibilities
- Build and operate large-scale, reliable and performant distributed systems.
- Collaborate with product teams to create new features.
- Write code but also manage our infrastructure.
Requirements
- 2+ years of experience writing and designing backend systems.
- Experience with Elixir or Rust.
- This team is small but critical, and its work has a direct impact on Discord's success and ability to scale.
- 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.
Compensation
- T he US base salary range for this full-time position is $180,000 to $220,000 + equity + benefits.
- Our salary ranges are determined by role and level.
- Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits.
Benefits
- Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
Company info
- Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games.
- We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests, and helps developers build and grow their businesses.
- Join us in our mission!
This listing is sourced directly from Discord's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.