Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform

🕒 August 12

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $196k - $245k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🚰 Data Engineer

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Discord

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2015

💼 Consulting

🎮 Gaming

🌍 Social Impact

💰 $12G Venture Round on 2022-03

Consulting • Gaming • Social Impact

Discord is a communication platform designed for creating communities. Users can chat via text, voice, or video, and the platform is known for its emphasis on gaming. It provides customized experiences with features like custom emojis, stickers, and soundboard effects. Discord supports seamless streaming with high quality and low latency, making it ideal for gamers to hang out and play games together online. It is accessible across various devices including PC, phone, and console. Additionally, Discord places a high priority on safety and moderation, offering resources and guidelines for keeping communities safe and engaging. It is widely used for social interactions, gaming, and community building.

📋 Description

• Build and maintain data infrastructure processing petabytes of data across millions of users • Write clean, well-tested code for data ingestion, transformation, and serving systems • Own projects end-to-end, from design through deployment and production support • Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and product teams to deliver solutions that power Discord's insights • Apply 80/20 thinking to challenge requirements, reduce unnecessary complexity, and deliver optimal solutions at the right time • Mentor teammates through code reviews, RFCs, and shared technical knowledge • Build the next generation Data Platform powering decisions for Discord's gaming platform

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience • Strong programming skills in Python, Java, Rust, Go, or similar • Hands-on experience building or operating large-scale data infrastructure, including pipelines, streaming systems, orchestration, or data warehousing • Experience with BigQuery, Kafka, Spark, Flink, Airflow, Dagster, or similar tools • Proven track record delivering complex, multi-phase projects autonomously • Experience handling edge cases, failure modes, and scale • Strong collaboration and communication skills, including with cross-functional partners • Ability to write clear technical documents, drive alignment, and support technical decisions • Growth mindset • Candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area or work remotely in the U.S.

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity • Benefits • Relocation assistance may be available • Reasonable accommodations during the interview process