Senior Software Engineer, Platform as a Service

Discord is used by over 200 million people every month for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does on our platform: play video games. Over 90% of our users play games, spending a combined 1.5 billion hours playing thousands of unique titles on Discord each month. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games.

Discord is hiring a technical, hands-on, empathetic senior software engineer to help define and deliver our Platform as a Service (PAAS) mission: build platform solutions to accelerate every Engineer at our company. With your expertise in building and using best-in-class infrastructure tools, you’ll equip our engineering organization with tools to move quickly and deliver features that bring millions of people together.

As a senior engineer on the PAAS team, you’ll collaborate with the team to deliver forward-looking, customer-centric tooling. You’ll make sure our solutions are crafted for a friction-free developer experience, have outsized impact across nearly every Engineering team, and help us articulate the golden path from development into production. You’ll be reporting to the Senior Engineering Manager for Platform Engineering, ensuring we build scalable, secure-by-default, and easy-to-use infrastructure tooling.

What You'Ll Do

• You'll work with customer engineering teams to ensure we’re building solutions that developers love using day-in and day-out
• You’ll work with the Internal Development Experience (IDX) team to ensure an easy path to go from development through staging into production, and
• You’ll work with the Platform Security team in order to secure every path to production
• You’ll ship Rust code to YAY, our in-house deployment tooling built around Google Kubernetes Engine and Temporal
• You’ll expose the full flexibility of Kubernetes for users while abstracting the complexities away
• You’ll build tools to manage the configuration, observability, and scaling characteristics of our infrastructure

What you should have

• 5+ years of experience in software development with a focus on tooling, infrastructure, and automation
• Experience working in multi-milestone and even multi-quarter projects
• Expertise and empathy when troubleshooting issues with customer engineering teams
• Expertise using standard cloud infrastructure tooling like Kubernetes, Docker
• Experience developing in cloud-based environments (we use Google Cloud)
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tooling (we use Terraform)
• Broad experience across many domains and technologies and comfort in diving into something new

Bonus Points

• You have deep experience with CI, build, and deployment technologies like Buildkite, Bazel, and Terraform
• You have experience with cloud networking tools like istio, envoy, etc
• You’re already using Rust regularly
• You’ve used Datadog and/or Sentry and are comfortable supporting application observability in those platforms
• You’ve built open source software integrated by other developers
• You’ve worked with a security engineering team to threat model your work

Candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties). Relocation assistance may be available.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $196,000 to $220,500 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits.

Why Discord? 

Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Your future is just a click away!

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