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VDURA

Software Engineer - Entry Level

Niwot, CO · On-site

VDURA is a leader in high-performance parallel file systems and distributed storage solutions for AI and HPC environments. We are seeking an entry-level Software Engineer to join our engineering team ...

VDURA

Software Engineer - Entry Level

Niwot, CO · On-site

VDURA is a leader in high-performance parallel file systems and distributed storage solutions for AI and HPC environments. We are seeking an entry-level Software Engineer to join our engineering team ...

VDURA

Software Engineer - Entry Level

Longmont, CO · On-site

VDURA is a leader in high-performance parallel file systems and distributed storage solutions for AI and HPC environments. We are seeking an entry-level Software Engineer to join our engineering team ...

Hyphen Connect Limited

... systems. Responsibilities: * Design and implement stress tests for network infrastructures ... Proficiency in Rust or Go programming languages. * Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

hireVouch

Software Engineer - Distributed Systems

About the Role We are looking for a distributed systems engineer to work on the systems that power the syncing engine our customers and other engineering teams rely on. This presents an exciting ...

Boeing

Entry-Level Systems Engineer

Saint Charles, MO · On-site

$73K - $100K/yr

Entry-Level Systems Engineer Company: The Boeing Company is looking for Entry-Level Systems Engineers to join our Saint Louis area team in either Berkeley, MO, Hazelwood, MO or Saint Charles, MO ...

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Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

Discord

San Francisco, CA • On-site

$160K - $180K/yr

Other

Posted 15 days ago

Job description

The Realtime Infrastructure team is responsible for building and maintaining some of Discord's highest scale and most critical services. 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. It 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. This role reports to the Senior Engineering Manager of Realtime Infrastructure.

What You'll Be Doing

  • 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.

What you should have

  • 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.

Bonus Points

  • Experience with Elixir.
  • Experience working with systems deployed in a cloud environment (GCP, AWS, etc.)
  • Knowledge of devops tools like Salt,Terraform or k8s.
  • 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.

Candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties). Relocation assistance may be available.

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. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits.

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