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Every day, hundreds of millions of gamers gather on Discord to hang out, strategize their next raid, celebrate tournament victories, and build communities around the games they love. Behind every ...

Discord Moderators serve as the frontline stewards of community health on the g3 Games Discord server. Moderators help maintain a respectful, inclusive, and safe environment by monitoring ...

Infrastructure Support Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$126K - $166K/yr

Triage and respond to community-reported issues on Discord and GitHub with detailed, actionable guidance. * Conduct end-to-end testing of infrastructure changes, including CI/CD pipelines and ...

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What is the difference between On Discord vs Community Manager?

AspectOn DiscordCommunity Manager
CredentialsTypically no formal credentials requiredOften requires experience in community engagement or social media
Work EnvironmentOnline, platform-specific (Discord servers)Online and sometimes in-office, managing multiple platforms
Employer & IndustryGaming, tech, or hobby communitiesBrands, gaming companies, or organizations with online communities
Search & Comparison IntentUnderstanding roles within Discord communitiesManaging and growing online communities

On Discord roles focus on moderating and engaging within specific Discord servers, often requiring familiarity with the platform. Community Managers oversee broader online communities across multiple platforms, involving strategic planning and communication skills. While both roles involve community engagement, On Discord is more platform-specific, whereas Community Managers handle overall community growth and relations.

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Infographic showing various On Discord job openings in the United States as of August 2026, with employment types broken down into 53% Internship, 38% Full Time, 7% Part Time, and 2% Contract. Highlights an 86% Physical, and 14% Remote job distribution.

Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

Discord

San Francisco, CA

$160K - $200K/yr

Full-time

Re-posted 10 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 or Rust.
  • 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 $200,000 + 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.