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About the Role
The Realtime Infrastructure team is responsible for building and maintaining some of Discord’s highest scale and most critical services. These 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, and will also help our product teams build new features on top of our infrastructure. This team is small but critical, and its work has a direct impact on Discord's success and ability to scale.
Responsibilities
- Build and operate large-scale, reliable and performant distributed systems.
- Collaborate with product teams to create new features.
- Ensure Discord “just works”.
- Write code but also manage our infrastructure.
- Work with a talented team of engineers who have built one of the largest communication platforms in the world.
Requirements
- 2+ years of experience writing and designing backend systems.
- Experience solving complex distributed system problems.
- Experience operating and maintaining critical tier 0 services.
- Knowledge of monitoring and alerting best practices.
- Familiar with open source software, and not afraid to dig into the source code of a library to find the answer you’re looking for.
Skills
- Elixir
- Rust
- GCP
- AWS
- Salt
- Terraform
- k8s
- open source projects
- Discord bots
- Discord apps
Location
- San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties)
Work Type
- full-time
- Onsite
Experience Level
- 2+ years of experience writing and designing backend systems
Salary/Compensations
- $180,000 to $220,000
Benefits
- equity
- benefits
- Relocation assistance may be available
About the Company
- Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does: play video games.
- 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.
- Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. 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. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Your future is just a click away!
Equal Opportunity
- Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process. We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know.
- Please see our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy for details regarding Discord’s collection and usage of personal information relating to the application and recruitment process by clicking HERE.