Discord is looking to improve the reliability and performance of its platform, particularly for its large user base of gamers, by building and maintaining high-scale and critical services.
Requirements
- 2+ years of experience writing and designing backend systems.
- Experience solving complex distributed system problems.
- Experience operating and maintaining critical tier 0 services.
- Knowledge of monitoring and alerting best practices.
- Familiar with open source software, and not afraid to dig into the source code of a library to find the answer you’re looking for.
- Experience with Elixir.
- Experience working with systems deployed in a cloud environment (GCP, AWS, etc.)
Responsibilities
- Build and operate large-scale, reliable and performant distributed systems.
- Collaborate with product teams to create new features.
- Ensure Discord “just works”.
- Write code but also manage our infrastructure.
- 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.
- Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process.
