Discord
Software Engineer, Developer Success
San Francisco Bay Area · Junior · Full-time
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About the role
- People come to Discord before, during, and after gaming, and we want to make that experience even better.
- We believe that gaming is better when playing with your friends and aim to foster better and deeper relationships through that.
- Our engineering culture believes that great teams are built through collaboration and trust.
Responsibilities
- Building features for game developers across the Discord app, developer portal, APIs, realtime infrastructure, and Social SDK.
- With support from your team, you'll own your projects end-to-end, from initial design through post-launch. Along the way, you'll help break high-level ideas into concrete tasks with milestones, build and ship them.
- Listening and working with our game developer partners to better understand their needs in order to improve our features and tools.
- This could mean hopping into partner meetings as a technical resource or working with our DevRelations team to answer their questions.
- Working with product managers, designers, and partner managers to find the way forward through ambiguity.
- A sense for product and design. We don't operate in silos, and you'll be collaborating closely with cross-functional peers. You should be willing to share opinions and collaborate to make something great.
- With support from your team, you'll own your projects end-to-end, from initial design through post-launch.
- Along the way, you'll help break high-level ideas into concrete tasks with milestones, build and ship them.
- A sense for product and design.
- You should be willing to share opinions and collaborate to make something great.
Requirements
- Experience with game development.
- Experience with C++ and TypeScript, with the ability to quickly learn new programming languages, technologies, and systems.
- Experience with mobile development.
- Experience with Unreal and/or Unity game engines
- Experience with C#, Elixir and Rust
- We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know.
Compensation
- The US base salary range for this full-time position is $160,000 to $180,000 + 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
- [Optional] Bonus Points
- 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.