Discord
Senior Software Engineer, Front-End Infrastructure
San Francisco, California, USA · Senior · Full-time
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About the role
- Becoming an expert in JavaScript tooling and serving as a resource to help teams solve any and all problems they encounter during development.
Responsibilities
- Building and maintaining the tools, pipelines, and processes that keep frontend development at Discord fast, safe, and reliable.
- Refactoring and upgrading the codebase to pay down tech debt, keep up with the state of the art in web development, and drive progress toward better maintainability.
- Digging deep into bundlers, linters, formatters, editor plugins, and more to optimize their performance, adopt and test new features early on, and continuously improve the experience for the developers using them.
- Experience developing and maintaining CLI tools and packages in JavaScript.
- Our Web Platform team is responsible for building and maintaining the critical systems that power Discord's frontend development across web, desktop, and mobile platforms.
- These systems support hundreds of engineers daily, process thousands of builds and deployments, and enable rapid feature delivery through robust tooling infrastructure.
- This team also owns the localization and translation systems that power the strings and copy found across all of our apps and platforms.
Requirements
- Experience with directly maintaining or writing plugins for tools like bundlers, linters, or formatters in any language.
- Experience with CI/CD orchestration, Cloudflare workers, cloud storage providers, and other application deployment processes.
- What you have: 3+ years of working with JavaScript tools and the Node.js ecosystem.
- We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know.
Skills
- Writing new and unique tools based on the specific needs of Discord's frontend projects to make everything Just Work.
Compensation
- The US base salary range for this full-time position is $196,000 to $220,500 + 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.
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.