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Director of Engineering, Safety

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$400K - $450K/yr

We're hiring a Director of Engineering to lead Safety Infrastructure Engineering at Discord. The org is roughly 20 engineers across two teams with two EM direct reports. You'll report to the senior ...

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Engineering Manager, Notifications

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$248K - $310K/yr

... Discord sends, the orchestration layer that optimizes notifications globally across types, the in ... This role reports to the Senior Engineering Manager of Growth. What You'll Be Doing * Lead a team ...

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Senior Data Engineer, Analytics

San Francisco, CA · Remote

$196K - $245K/yr

Discord is looking for an experienced and passionate Senior Data Engineer, Analytics to join our data team! You will be owning the transformation and semantic layer that turns data into clean, tested ...

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Senior Data Scientist, Analytics

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$196K - $245K/yr

Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for ... Collaborate with data and engineering teams to design scalable and future-proof instrumentation ...

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Senior Software Engineer- Database Infrastructure

Senior Software Engineer- Database Infrastructure

Discord

San Francisco, CA • On-site

$196K - $245K/yr

Full-time

Posted 24 days ago

Job description

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.
The Database Infrastructure team develops and operates all of Discord's databases and data services. Those systems store the data of Discord's 200M+ monthly active users-including trillions of messages! We work across multiple areas: databases, disk storage and Rust-based data access services. We're a small team whose work has a huge impact on our company's success and ability to grow!
Some blog posts from the team:
  • How Discord Indexes Trillions of Messages
  • How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages
  • How Discord Supercharges Network Disks for Extreme Low-Latency

You will:
  • Build and operate large-scale, reliable and performant data systems with ScyllaDB, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, Linux and Rust.
  • Collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to develop storage primitives enabling all of Discord.
  • Exercise "First Principles Thinking" to always deliver what matters most to our users.
  • Work with a talented team of engineers who have built one of the largest communication platforms in the world.

You have:
  • 4+ years of experience with building distributed systems and datastore infrastructure
  • Experience with highly-available and distributed databases: e.g. ScyllaDB, Cassandra, BigTable, DynamoDB, CockroachDB, Postgres w/HA, etc.
  • Proficiency with at least one statically-typed programming language: e.g. Rust, Go, Java, C, C++
  • Strong operating systems, distributed systems and concurrency control fundamentals
  • Familiarity with Linux internals
  • Comfortable working in fast paced environments.

Bonus Points:
  • Experience with Cassandra or Scylla
  • Experience with Rust
  • Knowledge of DevOps tools like Salt, Terraform or Kubernetes.

More things that might interest you:
  • We've tackled a lot of fascinating technical challenges over the years, and blogged about it regularly:
    • How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages
    • 25% or 6 to 4: The 11/6/23 Authentication Outage
    • How Discord Supercharges Network Disks for Extreme Low Latency
    • Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust
    • How Discord Indexes Billions of Messages
    • How Discord Stores Billions of Messages
    • How Discord Indexes Trillions of Messages
  • One of our team members even wrote a book on ScyllaDB
  • We present at conferences:
    • How Discord Indexes Trillions of Messages by Vicki Niu
    • How Discord Performs Database Upgrades at Scale by Ethan Donowitz

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 $196,000 to $245,000 + 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.
Why Discord?
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!
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.
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