Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

About this role

Join Discord's Realtime Infrastructure team to design and maintain critical distributed systems powering millions of daily active users. This role combines backend engineering with infrastructure operations to ensure Discord's reliability and enable new product features.

What you'll do

• Build and operate large-scale, reliable distributed systems
• Collaborate with product teams to develop new features
• Maintain critical tier 0 services and infrastructure
• Write backend code and manage infrastructure operations
• Implement monitoring and alerting systems
• Troubleshoot complex distributed system problems

What they're looking for

• Backend systems design and development
• Distributed systems problem-solving
• Critical service operations and maintenance
• Monitoring and alerting practices
• Open source software knowledge
• Cloud environments (GCP, AWS)
• DevOps tools (Terraform, Kubernetes, Salt)
• Elixir programming (bonus)

Benefits

• Equity compensation
• Competitive salary ($160,000-$180,000 base)
• Health and wellness benefits
• Relocation assistance available
• Impact on one of the world's largest communication platforms
• Work with experienced distributed systems engineers