Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Discord's Revenue group as an impact-focused engineer and contribute to the growth of our paid products. You will design, build, and maintain ad delivery systems, collaborating with various teams. This role requires 5+ years of software engineering experience with backend technologies (Python, Rust, Elixir) and experience with large-scale systems. You'll need a data and infrastructure mindset, staying up-to-date on technology trends. The position offers a competitive salary ($183,000 to $201,500) plus equity and benefits. This is a US-based, remote-friendly position.

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
• 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
• A product sense
• Love business impact

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