Senior Software Engineer, Platform as a Service

Discord; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 196,000 - 221,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading communication platform is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to enhance its Platform as a Service offering. The role involves collaboration across engineering teams to build tools that improve developer experience and system efficiency. Candidates should have 5+ years in software development, particularly in cloud environments, and experience with infrastructure automation tools. This position offers a competitive salary range of $196,000 to $220,500 plus equity and benefits.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software development focusing on tooling, infrastructure, and automation.
• Expertise in cloud-based environments, preferably Google Cloud.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tooling like Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with teams to build developer-friendly solutions.
• Work with engineering teams to streamline the path to production.
• Develop and maintain scalable infrastructure tooling.

Skills

Software development

Infrastructure

Automation

Cloud-based environments

Tools development

Tools

Terraform

Google Cloud

Kubernetes

Job description

Senior Software Engineer, Platform as a Service

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.

Discord is hiring a technical, hands-on, empathetic senior software engineer to help define and deliver our Platform as a Service (PAAS) mission: build platform solutions to accelerate every Engineer at our company. With your expertise in building and using best-in-class infrastructure tools, you’ll equip our engineering organization with tools to move quickly and deliver features that bring millions of people together.

As a senior engineer on the PAAS team, you’ll collaborate with the team to deliver forward-looking, customer-centric tooling. You’ll make sure our solutions are crafted for a friction-free developer experience, have outsized impact across nearly every Engineering team, and help us articulate the golden path from development into production. You’ll be reporting to the Senior Engineering Manager for Platform Engineering, ensuring we build scalable, secure-by-default, and easy-to-use infrastructure tooling.

What you'll do

• You'll work with customer engineering teams to ensure we’re building solutions that developers love using day-in and day-out
• You’ll work with the Internal Development Experience (IDX) team to ensure an easy path to go from development through staging into production, and
• You’ll work with the Platform Security team in order to secure every path to production
• You’ll ship Rust code to YAY, our in-house deployment tooling built around Google Kubernetes Engine and Temporal
• You’ll expose the full flexibility of Kubernetes for users while abstracting the complexities away
• You’ll build tools to manage the configuration, observability, and scaling characteristics of our infrastructure

What you should have

• 5+ years of experience in software development with a focus on tooling, infrastructure, and automation
• Experience working in multi-milestone and even multi-quarter projects
• Expertise and empathy when troubleshooting issues with customer engineering teams
• Experience developing in cloud-based environments (we use Google Cloud)
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tooling (we use Terraform)
• Broad experience across many domains and technologies and comfort in diving into something new

Bonus Points

• You have deep experience with CI, build, and deployment technologies like Buildkite, Bazel, and Terraform
• You have experience with cloud networking tools like istio, envoy, etc
• You’ve used Datadog and/or Sentry and are comfortable supporting application observability in those platforms
• You’ve built open source software integrated by other developers
• You’ve worked with a security engineering team to threat model your work

Candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area. Relocation assistance may be available. The US base salary range for this full-time position is $196,000 to $220,500 + equity + benefits.

Why Discord?

Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission!

Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process. We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know.

Discord is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes all qualified applicants.