Senior Software Engineer, Developer Platforms

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.

This position is US based only.

Discord is hiring a technical, hands-on, empathetic senior software engineer to help define and deliver our Developer Platforms mission: build platform solutions to accelerate every Engineer at our company. With your expertise in delivering high quality products, 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 Developer Platforms 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 Engineering Manager for Platform Security and Platform Engineering, ensuring we build scalable, secure-by-default, and delightful development platforms.

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-outYou'll collaborate with our Client Developer Experience team and our Platform-as-a-Service team for a cohesive developer experience and a crisp path to productionYou'll improve our remote cloud development environment (we use Coder, and you can read more about it here: https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-moved-engineering-to-cloud-development-environments)You'll provide fast and stable builds across our entire tech stack using tools like Bazel, Docker, Nix, and K8sYou'll build the core libraries and CLI frameworks that provide a unified tooling ecosystemYou'll refine our existing build, test, and deploy tools or building them from the ground up

What You Should Have

5+ years of experience in software development with a focus on tooling, infrastructure, and automationExperience working in multi-milestone and even multi-quarter projectsExpertise and empathy when troubleshooting issues with customer engineering teamsExperience developing in cloud-based environments (we use Google Cloud)Experience with infrastructure-as-code tooling (we use Terraform)Experience with CI, build, and deployment technologies like Buildkite, Docker, Kubernetes, Bazel, and TerraformBroad experience across many domains and technologies and comfort in diving into something new

Bonus Points

You’ve built open source software integrated by other developersYou obsess over and nerd out over your own development workflow (keyboards, dotfiles, editors, window managers, and the like)You’ve used nix or other declarative build systems like itYou’ve worked on developer tooling across MacOS, Windows, and LinuxYou’ve worked with a security engineering team to threat model your work

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $183,000 to $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 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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Key Skills

• CSS
• Linux