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Principal Software Engineer - Infrastructure

discord· 86 open roles

Location TBD On-siteFull-time2 weeks ago
Salary
$450,000 - $600,000
Experience
Mid
Job Type
Full-time
Posted
2 weeks ago
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About This RoleAI processing…

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.

Key Responsibilities

  • 1
    Lead Discord's most critical infrastructure initiatives.
  • 2
    Define and drive the technical vision and multi-year roadmap for Infrastructure, aligning teams around shared architectural principles.
  • 3
    Partner with leadership across the company to ensure infrastructure capabilities enable product innovation.
  • 4
    Design systems that balance reliability, cost-efficiency, and scalability.
  • 5
    Mentor and grow senior engineers across multiple teams, raising the technical bar organization-wide.
  • 6
    Represent Discord's engineering culture externally through blog posts, conference talks, and open source contributions.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
  • Experience architecting complex infrastructure serving hundreds of millions of users with strict uptime requirements.
  • Deep expertise in backend systems, databases, and the operational realities of running systems at scale.
  • Ability to navigate significant ambiguity and make sound technical decisions that hold up over time.
  • Experience influencing technical direction across many teams without direct authority.
  • Strong communication skills and you can articulate complex technical concepts to any audience and build alignment around your vision.
  • A passion for mentorship and raising the capabilities of engineers around you.

Perks & Benefits

Our languages: Rust, Elixir, and Python.
Our databases: ScyllaDB, Postgres and Elasticsearch.
Our systems are deployed in Google Cloud.
Our infrastructure teams shared many blog posts over the years. Some highlights:
How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages
Maxjourney: Pushing Discord’s Limits with a Million+ Online Users in a Single Server
Modern Image Formats at Discord: Supporting WebP and AVIF
How Discord Supercharges Network Disks for Extreme Low Latency
Using Rust to Scale Elixir for 11 Million Concurrent Users
Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust

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