Discord is looking to build and operate large-scale, reliable, and performant data systems to support its rapidly growing user base and its critical role in the future of gaming. The Database Infrastructure team needs to manage and enhance the systems that store trillions of messages and data for over 200 million monthly active users.
Requirements
- 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
- Experience with Cassandra or Scylla
- Experience with Rust
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.
Other
- 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.
- Comfortable working in fast paced environments.
- Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process.
- If you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know.
