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Discord · 3 months ago

Senior Software Engineer- Database Infrastructure

positionSan Francisco Bay Area
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
seniorityMid, Senior Level
money$196K/yr - $220K/yr
date4+ years exp

Discord is a platform used by over 200 million people monthly, primarily for gaming. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Database Infrastructure team to build and operate large-scale data systems, ensuring reliability and performance while collaborating across teams.

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Responsibilities

Build and operate large-scale, reliable and performant data systems with ScyllaDB, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, Linux and Rust
Collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to develop storage primitives enabling all of Discord
Exercise "First Principles Thinking" to always deliver what matters most to our users
Work with a talented team of engineers who have built one of the largest communication platforms in the world

Qualification

Distributed systemsScyllaDBPostgreSQLRustLinux internalsConcurrency controlCassandraDevOps toolsStatically-typed programmingFast paced environments

Required

4+ years of experience with building distributed systems and datastore infrastructure
Experience with highly-available and distributed databases: e.g. ScyllaDB, Cassandra, BigTable, DynamoDB, CockroachDB, Postgres w/HA, etc
Proficiency with at least one statically-typed programming language: e.g. Rust, Go, Java, C, C++
Strong operating systems, distributed systems and concurrency control fundamentals
Familiarity with Linux internals
Comfortable working in fast paced environments

Preferred

Experience with Cassandra or Scylla
Experience with Rust
Knowledge of DevOps tools like Salt, Terraform or Kubernetes

Benefits

Equity
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Relocation assistance may be available

Company

Discord

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Discord is an online voice, video, and text communication platform designed for creating communities.
dateFounded in 2015
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size501-1000 employees
web-link
https://discord.com

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Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$995.41M
Key Investors
Flat CapitalDragoneer Investment GroupSony Interactive Entertainment
2024-03-01Secondary Market
2022-11-22Series I
2022-03-12Secondary Market· $10.86M

Leadership Team

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Board Member & Advisor to the CEO
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Stanislav Vishnevskiy
CTO & Co-Founder
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