Discord is hiring a
Engineering Manager

Summary

Join us in our mission to make it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games. As a leader of the Audio/Video Infrastructure team, you'll oversee every voice call, video call, and Go Live session, tackling scalability challenges, managing the control plane, and developing the new data plane in Rust.

Requirements

• You have 3+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager
• You've worked with large-scale distributed systems serving tens or hundreds of millions of users
• You're a hands-on Engineering Manager who embraces technical complexity and understands the entire stack
• You have experience managing networked video infrastructure or real-time packet-based applications
• You've worked with cloud environments (e.g., GCP, AWS)
• You can effectively balance cost considerations against product quality

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering execution within the AV Infrastructure team
• Transition our infrastructure from static scaling to auto-scaling based on demand
• Develop and implement the team's roadmap to enhance reliability and efficiency
• Spearhead the re-architecting of our infrastructure primitives, shifting from bare metal to cloud
• Ensure Discord 'just works' by building and maintaining reliable, efficient infrastructure

Preferred Qualifications

• You have experience working with WebRTC
• You've explored io_uring based approaches for problems before with your team
• You have experience with Rust or C++
• You've used Discord personally. If you've played games and used Go Live with friends, you understand the product's capabilities
• You're familiar with DevOps tools such as Salt or Terraform