Distributed Systems Engineer – High-Scale Infra, Equity

Discord; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Equity

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Discord is seeking a backend systems engineer to join the Realtime Infrastructure team in San Francisco. In this role, you will build and maintain high-scale services that are essential for our communication platform. You'll collaborate with product teams to ensure that Discord's systems run smoothly while writing code and managing infrastructure.

The ideal candidate will have 2+ years of experience and strong knowledge of distributed systems. The position offers a competitive salary of $160,000 to $180,000, plus equity and benefits.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience writing and designing backend systems.
• Experience operating and maintaining critical tier 0 services.
• Familiarity with devops tools and cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate large-scale, reliable and performant distributed systems.
• Collaborate with product teams to create new features.
• Ensure Discord's systems are reliable and efficient.

Skills

Backend systems design

Complex distributed systems

Monitoring and alerting best practices

Open source software familiarity

Tools

Elixir

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

Discord is seeking a backend systems engineer to join the Realtime Infrastructure team in San Francisco. In this role, you will build and maintain high-scale services that are essential for our communication platform. You'll collaborate with product teams to ensure that Discord's systems run smoothly while writing code and managing infrastructure.

The ideal candidate will have 2+ years of experience and strong knowledge of distributed systems. The position offers a competitive salary of $160,000 to $180,000, plus equity and benefits.