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Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

Discord
San Francisco, CA, United States
Posted 6 hours ago
Last seen 6 hours ago
Active
full-time
Core Tech Engineering
$160,000 to $180,000

Job Summary

Shape the future of gaming communication as a Software Engineer on Discord's Realtime Infrastructure team. Build and operate high-scale distributed systems, directly impacting the reliability and performance for over 200 million monthly users.

About this job

The Realtime Infrastructure team builds and maintains Discord’s highest scale and most critical services, including text chat and user session updates. This role significantly impacts Discord’s overall reliability and performance, helping product teams build new features on top of robust infrastructure. Join a small, critical team directly impacting Discord's success and ability to scale.

Requirements

- 2+ years of experience writing and designing backend systems. - Experience solving complex distributed system problems. - Experience operating and maintaining critical tier 0 services. - Knowledge of monitoring and alerting best practices. - Familiar with open source software, and not afraid to dig into the source code of a library to find the answer you’re looking for.

Benefits & Perks

- Equity - Benefits - Relocation assistance may be available

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