Discord is hiring a
Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join us in shaping the future of digital advertising and marketplace interactions! We are looking for a highly technical, creative, hands-on, and impact-focused Staff Engineer to join our growing Ads team.

Requirements

• Deep domain expertise in the world of ads delivery, ads auction systems, or ads marketplace platforms
• A growth mindset. You view mistakes as learning opportunities and build upon your successes. You challenge yourself and those around you to continuously improve
• A focus on impact. You have a sharp eye for what changes can bring a product from good to great. You collaborate closely with product managers, designers, analysts, and other engineers to define great solutions to business problems
• A sense of ownership. You believe in solving a problem completely rather than simply shipping a solution. You operate autonomously and follow through on your commitments
• A love of mentorship of fellow engineers, providing feedback and guidance on system architecture, API design, data modeling, and tradeoffs
• 6+ years of experience, 3+ in relevant roles

Responsibilities

• Act as a technical leader and domain expert in building a scalable and high-performance ad delivery system
• Be a strategic partner with engineering, product, and cross functional leadership in designing, developing and scaling digital advertising features that drive revenue growth and enhance user engagement
• 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
• Use your technical expertise to constantly raise the bar and empower the team to deliver extraordinary results at the high technical level we set
• Mentor and guide the careers of the engineers through coaching and finding opportunities that support their technical skillset and goals

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Typescript, React, React Native, Python and/or Rust
• Familiarity with experimentation and analysis
• Contributions to open-source projects
• Interest or passion for the Discord platform