Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Discord's Revenue group as an impact-focused engineer and help build the future of Discord's business by creating compelling paid products. This US-based role focuses on designing, building, and maintaining ad delivery systems. You will collaborate with other engineers and stakeholders to solve complex problems related to data collection, ad ranking, and budget pacing. The ideal candidate possesses 5+ years of software engineering experience with backend systems (Python, Rust, Elixir) and experience with large-scale systems and cloud environments. This position offers a competitive salary, equity, and benefits.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Familiarity with similar systems and a background building large scale systems, including in database design, querying, and data caching
• A data and infrastructure mindset. You are excited to dig into large datasets to validate data and algorithms, and enjoy designing well-built, available and observable systems. You also are familiar with querying and presentation of complex data
• Experience working with infrastructure in cloud environments such as GCS, and using observability tools similar to Datadog
• Stay up to date on relevant technology trends and developments. You view challenges and mistakes as learning opportunities while building upon your successes. You push yourself and those around you to improve
• A product sense. You maintain a high degree of empathy for your internal and external users, and seek feedback from them about your work
• Love business impact. You get excited seeing numbers go up (or down!) as a result of your work

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain systems for delivering the best ad to each user while respecting obligations to advertisers
• Collaborate with engineers on the team, and other teams such as Data Platform, Serving Infrastructure, and Persistence Infrastructure to understand requirements and build systems to meet them
• Solve complex domain problems in the areas of high-volume and accurate data collection, ads ranking, budget pacing, and frequency capping
• Partner with stakeholders and engineers across a small set of teams to define problems and build solutions into high scale, reliable and observable infrastructure
• Own projects end to end — you’ll be responsible for working with Product and other stakeholders to refine requirements, creating technical designs and specs, implementing changes, and seeing projects through to launch and maintenance

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working in ad tech, especially on ads delivery infrastructure, budget pacing, and pricing models

Benefits

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $183,000 to $201,500 + equity + benefits