Senior Software Engineer - Developer Productivity

Discord is looking for a highly technical, empathetic, hands-on, and mission-focused Senior Software Engineer to scale technology and teams focused on Developer Productivity. Leveraging your expertise and passion for delivering high quality products, you’ll equip an all-star engineering organization with tools and technology to move quickly and iterate on product features that bring millions of people together.

As Developer Productivity engineers, we remove friction and focus on delivering compounding leverage across the entire software development lifecycle. Our mission is to seamlessly scale Discord to 1000 engineers and beyond while improving autonomy, velocity, and reliability.

What you'll be doing

• Building the core libraries and frameworks that provide a unified tooling ecosystem.
• Collaborating with all engineering teams, learning their pain points, and removing friction.
• Improving our existing build, test, and deploy tools or building them from the ground up.
• Providing fast and stable builds across our entire tech stack using tools like Bazel, Docker, and Webpack.
• Increasing the rate of client-side development by learning and applying new advancements in the dynamic product development landscape.
• Pioneering our container-based development environment, which uses Kubernetes and Docker.
• Creating our next-generation continuous integration and continuous delivery systems.
• Automating all of the things!

What you should have

• 4+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience with CI, build, and deployment technologies like Jenkins, Buildkite, Docker, Kubernetes, Bazel, Packer, and Webpack.
• Deep knowledge of operating systems and the software ecosystems that surround them.
• Experience working on a variety of areas ranging from backend infrastructure and systems programming to full stack projects.
• A passion for building tools that help others succeed.
• Ability to context switch and focus on small and large problems.

Bonus Points

• You have experience in specific areas like AI/ML, data, mobile, native, product development, and design.
• Experience with DevOps tools like Salt or Chef and cloud providers like Google Cloud Platform or AWS.
• You have built open source software integrated by other developers.

New York City only Minimum salary of $186,000/year + equity and benefits
Note: Disclosure as required by NYC Pay Transparency Law.
Colorado only. Minimum salary of $148,800/year + equity and benefits.
Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085(8-5-20)

Benefits and Perks

• Comprehensive medical insurance including Health, Dental and Vision (plus up to $20,000 for gender affirmation procedures)
• Mental health resources and quarterly wellness stipends
• 16+ paid holidays, 4 weeks of PTO + use-what-you-need sick days
• Paid parental leave (plus fertility, adoption and other family planning benefits)
• Flexible long-term work options (remote and hybrid)
• Volunteer time off
• A diverse slate of Employee Resource Groups
• Plus commuter contributions and other perks for office-based employees

About Us

Discord is a voice, video and text app that helps friends and communities come together to hang out and explore their interests — from artists and activists, to study groups, sneakerheads, plant parents, and more. With 150 million monthly users across 19 million active communities, called servers, Discord has grown to become one of the most popular communications services in the world. Discord was built without selling ads or user data and instead, offers a premium subscription called Nitro that gives users special perks like higher quality streams and fun customizations.

We’re working toward an inclusive world where no one feels like an outsider, where genuine human connection is a click, text chat, or voice call away. A place where everyone can find belonging. Challenging? Heck yes. Rewarding? Double heck yes. It’s a mission that gives us the chance to positively impact millions of people all over the world. So if this strikes a chord with you, come build belonging with us!