Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

📋 Description

• Build and operate large-scale, reliable and performant distributed systems.
• Collaborate with product teams to create new features.
• Ensure Discord “just works”.
• Write code but also manage our infrastructure.
• Work with a talented team of engineers who have built one of the largest communication platforms in

🎯 Requirements

• 2+ years of experience writing and designing backend systems.
• Experience solving complex distributed system problems.
• Experience operating and maintaining critical tier 0 services.
• Knowledge of monitoring and alerting best practices.
• Familiar with open source software, and not afraid to dig into the source code of a library to find

🎁 Benefits

• Experience with Elixir or Rust.
• Experience working with systems deployed in a cloud environment (GCP, AWS, etc.)
• Knowledge of devops tools like Salt,Terraform or k8s.
• You have built or contributed to open source projects.
• You are a Discord power user and have built bots or apps interacting with our platform.