Software Engineer (Distributed Systems)

Join Discord's Realtime Infrastructure team as a Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems. In this role, you will build and operate large-scale, reliable, and performant distributed systems, collaborate with product teams to create new features, and ensure Discord's overall reliability and performance. You will have a significant impact on Discord's success and ability to scale. Enjoy a flexible work model, competitive compensation, comprehensive health benefits, family support, generous PTO, wellness stipends, and opportunities for charitable giving.

- Knowledge of monitoring and alerting best practices
- 2+ years of experience writing and designing backend systems
- 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
- Experience operating and maintaining critical tier 0 services
- Experience solving complex distributed system problems
- Experience with Elixir or Rust
- Experience working with systems deployed in a cloud environment (GCP, AWS, etc.)
- Knowledge of devops tools like Salt,Terraform or k8s
- You have built or contributed to open source projects
- You are a Discord power user and have built bots or apps interacting with our platform