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Senior Software Engineer, Native Framework & Tools
2 years ago
Join our journey to create the best cross-platform application for messaging and real-time interactions! The Native Engineering at Discord oversees the technology and end to end user experience of our audio/video features across desktop and mobile. The team’s mission is to give our users the utmost certainty that our voice, video, and client experience is excellent. The Native Engineering has a unique development environment and ecosystem with specialized tooling.
If you are a self-motivated, inquisitive individual who passionate about building the most optimal developer ecosystem, read on...
You Will:
- Building the core libraries and frameworks that provide a unified tooling ecosystem for audio and video native engineering.
- Collaborating with the developers in the native engineering, learning their pain points, and removing friction.
- Improving and optimizing our existing native client build, test, and debugging tools or building them from the ground up.
- Building audio and video telemetry system for monitoring to identify regressions
- Increasing the rate of client-side development by learning and applying new advancements in the dynamic product development landscape.
You Have:
- You have 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer.
- You have experience with toolchains, software build process, CI/CD framework.
- You have experience building test/simulation systems.
- You have experience building large scale real-time telemetry systems.
- You love automation and always looking to automate and streamline processes to improve efficiency.
- You enjoy coming up with pragmatic solutions to concrete problems using first principles thinking.
- You're passionate about tooling and creating developer ecosystem to empower engineers to build, test and deploy their work easily in the most optimal way.
- You have strong communication skills and thrive in small, collaborative, energetic teams.
Bonus Points:
- Experience with Google tooling used by Chromium project, such as depot tools, GN, GOMA would be a strong plus.
- Knowledge or experience with Bazel.
- Experience building test/simulation systems for real-time audio/video.
Our Benefits:
- We take care of our team with comprehensive Medical (HMO or PPO), Dental, and Vision plans at no cost for employees
- Paid leave for new parents and 11-days PTO
- Fully subsidized commuter and parking benefit
- Gym allowance
- Awesome daily catered lunches and snacks
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!
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