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Senior Software Engineer - API Platform

We'd love to work with someone like you. We care about creating a delightful experience: for people who use Discord and for ourselves.

Discord

Employee count: 51-200

Salary: 183k-202k USD

United States only
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Discord is about giving people the power to create space to find belonging in their lives. We want to make it easier for you to talk regularly with the people you care about. We want you to build genuine relationships with your friends and communities close to home or around the world. Original, reliable, playful, and relatable. These are the values that connect our users and our employees at Discord.

The API Platform team is the heart and soul of Discord's HTTP API layer. We juggle a whopping 400,000 requests per second, and tens of thousands of asynchronous jobs. Developing and operating the core components of the API, our work allows internal developers to deliver new features to production, and allows Discord users to send billions of messages each day.

As an API Platform Engineer, you'll report to the Engineering Manager of API Platform within the Core Technology department at Discord. Your role would see you refine our codebase and perfect our infrastructure, work that influences almost every interaction that our users have while using Discord!

What You'll Be Doing

  • Ensuring our systems are fast, reliable and efficient while meeting the needs of product teams.
  • Writing code but also managing our infrastructure.
  • Ensuring the reliable operation of critical systems that serve millions of users daily.
  • Enabling dozens of teams to quickly and safely deploy code to production.
  • Working with an amazing group of engineers passionate about keeping Discord running smoothly.

What You'll Have:

  • 5+ years of experience developing backend systems.
  • Experience scaling distributed systems
  • Experience operating complex services in a production environment
  • Familiarity with open source software, and ability dig into a library's source code to find the answer you’re looking for.
  • Confidence making tradeoffs when leading projects to ensure constant progress.
  • Passion for making the lives of Engineers easier, more efficient, and scaling Engineering teams through infrastructure wizardry

Bonus Points

  • Experience with large Python or Rust codebases.
  • Experience deploying and managing containerized applications with Kubernetes
  • Experience with Google Pub/Sub or other message queue systems
  • An understanding of Python runtime internals or the gevent library
  • Familiarity with Redis, ScyllaDB, or Postgres
  • 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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $183,000-$201,500 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related experience, and training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits.

Please see our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy for details regarding Discord's collection and use of personal information relating to the application and recruitment process by clicking here.

About Us

Discord is a voice, video and text app that helps friends come together to hang out, have fun, and play games. With over 150 million monthly users, Discord has grown to become one of the most popular communications services in the world. Discord offers a premium subscription called Nitro that gives users special perks like higher quality streams and fun customizations.

We’re working toward an inclusive world where no one feels like an outsider, where genuine human connection is a click, text chat, or voice call away. A place where everyone can find belonging. Challenging? Heck yes. Rewarding? Double heck yes. It’s a mission that gives us the chance to positively impact millions of people all over the world. So if this strikes a chord with you, come build belonging with us!

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About the job

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Jul 22, 2024

Posted on

May 23, 2024

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Salary: 183k-202k USD

Location requirements

Hiring timezones

United States +/- 0 hours

About Discord

Learn more about Discord and their company culture.

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We'd love to work with someone like you.

We care about creating a delightful experience: for people who use Discord and for ourselves. We value a workplace that's as diverse as our product. People here do work that matters. We keep moving forward with a figure-it-out mentality. And above all, we remember to work with empathy, kindness, and compassion.

All of our values help us make a better product, better decisions, and foster a better work environment. As we continue to grow, we stay dedicated to building a company that is representative of the world we live and play in. We'd love your help.

Top-tier perks and benefits:

Stay healthy

We take care of our team with comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans.

Parental perks

Spend some quality time with the next generation with parental leave, fertility, adoption, and surrogacy benefits.

Kick back

Stay refreshed with over 13 paid holidays, use-what-you-need sick days, and four weeks of PTO.

Commute easy

Up to $270 per month for your commuting and parking needs.

The loadout

Awesome daily, catered lunches and snacks. A desk fund to make your space yours. Whatever you need for your computer setup, including a headphone allowance.

Workout on us

A wellness allowance for your gym membership or other wellness activites. Yoga in the office every week.

Transgender benefits

Discord will reimburse up to $10,000 for any procedure related to transition that is not covered by medical insurance.

Discord HQ

Our office is located in Potrero Hill, a little neighborhood in SF near awesome coffee, food, and Whole Foods. Also sushi.

Relocation

Excellent relocation bonuses for new hires moving to San Francisco.

If you're wanting to work with a motivated team on something that gives millions of users a space to find belonging, check out the four values of working at Discord on our blog. For all roles, we're hiring people to join us in our beautiful San Francisco office, and for select, indicated positions, we're currently open to having people join our team remotely in these states:

Arizona - California - Colorado - Florida - Georgia - Illinois - Maryland - Michigan - Nevada - New Jersey - New York - North Carolina - Oregon - Pennsylvania - Texas - Virginia - Washington

Employee benefits

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Stay healthy

We take care of our team with comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans.

Commute easy

In a non-COVID world, get up to $270 per month for your commuting and parking needs.

Kick back

Stay refreshed with over 19 paid holidays, use-what-you-need sick days, and four weeks of PTO.

Parental perks

Spend some quality time with the next generation with parental leave, fertility, adoption, and surrogacy benefits.

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Discord

Company size

51-200

Founded in

2015

Chief executive officer

Jason Citron

Employees live in

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