Senior Software Engineer, Media Infrastructure

Wondering how Discord stores the thousands of pictures, videos and memes you and your friends have been sending to each other over the past few years? Join the Media Infrastructure team and find out! 

We’re responsible for storing, processing and serving 100PB+ worth of user generated media to our users in a reliable, cost effective, safe and secure way. 

As a Media Infrastructure engineer, you will be directly responsible for the end to end journey of media on Discord. You will also create the building blocks our product teams are using to launch new features allowing our users to express themselves with media.

What you'll be doing

• Solve incredibly hard scaling challenges.
• Ensure our systems are fast, reliable and efficient.
• Collaborate with product teams to add new features.
• Write code but also manage our infrastructure.
• Work with a talented team of engineers who have built one of the largest media serving infrastructure in the world.

What you should have

• 5+ years of experience writing and designing backend systems.
• Experience solving complex distributed system problems.
• Experience operating systems handling 1M+ qps.
• Familiar with open source software, and not afraid to dig into the source code of a library to find the answer you’re looking for. 
• Comfortable making tradeoffs when leading projects to ensure constant progress.

Bonus Points

• Experience with Rust or Python.
• Experience working with systems deployed in a cloud environment (GCP, AWS, etc.)
• Experience processing and manipulating media.
• Knowledge of devops tools like Salt or Terraform.
• Open source project contributions.
• You are a Discord power user and have built bots or apps interacting with our platform.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $190,000 to $204,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits.