Discord is hiring a
Senior Software Engineer

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. We are focused on building a self-service tooling platform to make the petabytes of data at Discord easily accessible for everyone at the company.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer
• Empathy for both your internal and external users and seek feedback on your work
• Ability to approach problems with first principles thinking, embrace ambiguity, and enjoy collaborative work on complex solutions
• Experience defining architecture, tooling, and strategy for a large-scale data processing system
• Proactive in staying up-to-date with industry trends and assessing new technologies to enhance problem-solving capabilities

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end development of data tooling and frameworks, using modern technologies such as BigQuery, Apache Beam, Airflow, Dagster, dbt, Kubernetes, and Rust
• Ensure tight-knit collaboration with leadership, cross-functional stake-holders and senior engineers across the organization. Collaborate with leadership and senior engineers across the team to define the technical vision and build on the technical roadmap for Data Platform
• Work with Data Platform to ensure we have a platform with strong governance that respects our users' privacy throughout
• Care deeply about business outcomes and constraints and keep them in mind as you solve hard, unbounded problems
• Coach and mentor the next generation of technical leaders at Discord

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with very high-scale data infrastructure and tooling
• Experience with data products on Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, or Airflow
• Full-stack development or product engineering experience

Benefits

$183,000 to $201,500 + equity + benefits