Discord
Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform
San Francisco Bay Area · Senior · Full-time
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About the role
- Behind every voice channel, every streamer Go Live, every Quest completed, there's data, petabytes of it, telling the story of how people connect through gaming.
- Our salary ranges are determined by role and level.
- Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain data infrastructure processing petabytes of data across millions of users
- Own projects end-to-end. From design through deployment and production support
- Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and product teams to deliver solutions that power Discord's insights
- Apply 80/20 thinking to challenge requirements, cut unnecessary complexity, and deliver the optimal solution at the right time
- Hands-on experience building or operating data infrastructure like pipelines, streaming systems, orchestration, or data warehousing at scale (BigQuery, Kafka, Spark, Flink, Airflow, Dagster, or similar)
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, including with XFN partners. You write clear technical documents, drive alignment, and bring people along on technical decisions
- Own projects end-to-end.
- From design through deployment and production support
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, including with XFN partners.
- You write clear technical documents, drive alignment, and bring people along on technical decisions
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with strong programming skills in Python, Java, Rust, Go, or similar
- 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 $220,500 to $269,500 + 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.