Senior Software Engineer – Data Platform | Discord | Remote (United States)
Posted 2025-09-08
Remote, USA
Full Time
Immediate Start
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">This position is US based only.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Discord is about giving people the power to create space to find belonging in their lives. We want to make it easier for you to talk regularly with the people you care about. We want you to build genuine relationships with your friends and communities close to home or around the world. Original, reliable, playful, and relatable. These are the values that connect our users and our employees at Discord.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">The central Data Platform seeks to build a self-service tooling platform to make the petabytes of data at Discord easily accessible for everyone at the company. We build full-stack applications, tooling, and frameworks to improve the productivity of teams at Discord, in particular our product, analytics, and machine learning teams. Our tooling covers the end-to-end lifecycle of data from acquisition to consumption. Reporting to the Engineering Manager of Data Infrastructure, you will work on strategy that is foundational to the company and product. To learn more about Discord Engineering, read our <a href="https://discord.com/blog" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">engineering blog here</a> — including <a href="https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-creates-insights-from-trillions-of-data-points" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">“How We Create Insights From Trillion Data Points”</a> that this team is behind!</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">What You’ll Be Doing</strong></p>
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<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Lead end-to-end development of data tooling and frameworks, using modern technologies such as BigQuery, Apache Beam, Airflow, Dagster, dbt, Kubernetes, and Rust.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Ensure tight-knit collaboration with leadership, cross-functional stake-holders and senior engineers across the organization. Collaborate with leadership and senior engineers across the team to define the technical vision and build on the technical roadmap for Data Platform.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Work with Data Platform to ensure we have a platform with strong governance that respects our users’ privacy throughout.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Care deeply about business outcomes and constraints and keep them in mind as you solve hard, unbounded problems.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Coach and mentor the next generation of technical leaders at Discord.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">You Will Thrive In This Role If</strong></p>
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<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Empathy for both your internal and external users and seek feedback on your work.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Ability to approach problems with first principles thinking, embrace ambiguity, and enjoy collaborative work on complex solutions.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience defining architecture, tooling, and strategy for a large-scale data processing system.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Proactive in staying up-to-date with industry trends and assessing new technologies to enhanse problem solving capabilities.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Bonus Points</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience working with very high-scale data infrastructure and tooling</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience with data products on Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, or Airflow</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Full-stack development or product engineering experience</span></li>
</ul>
<hr>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><em>The US base salary range for this full-time position is $183,000 to $201,500 + 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.</em></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">#buildbelonging #LI-Remote #LI-Hybrid #LI-HY1</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Please see our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy for details regarding Discord’s collection and use of personal information relating to the application and recruitment process by clicking <a href="https://discord.com/terms/applicant-candidate-privacy-policy" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">here. </a></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Discord is an equal opportunity employer that believes diversity inspires creativity and innovation. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where employees can do their best work free of harassment or discrimination, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, military status, or any other protected characteristics or identities. We encourage all candidates to apply for roles where they may make the most impact.</p>
<h4>About Us</h4>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Discord is a voice, video and text app that helps friends come together to hang out, have fun, and play games. With over 150 million monthly users, Discord has grown to become one of the most popular communications services in the world. Discord offers a premium subscription called Nitro that gives users special perks like higher quality streams and fun customizations.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">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. <strong class=" font-semibold">So if this strikes a chord with you, come build belonging with us!</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Discord is about giving people the power to create space to find belonging in their lives. We want to make it easier for you to talk regularly with the people you care about. We want you to build genuine relationships with your friends and communities close to home or around the world. Original, reliable, playful, and relatable. These are the values that connect our users and our employees at Discord.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">The central Data Platform seeks to build a self-service tooling platform to make the petabytes of data at Discord easily accessible for everyone at the company. We build full-stack applications, tooling, and frameworks to improve the productivity of teams at Discord, in particular our product, analytics, and machine learning teams. Our tooling covers the end-to-end lifecycle of data from acquisition to consumption. Reporting to the Engineering Manager of Data Infrastructure, you will work on strategy that is foundational to the company and product. To learn more about Discord Engineering, read our <a href="https://discord.com/blog" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">engineering blog here</a> — including <a href="https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-creates-insights-from-trillions-of-data-points" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">“How We Create Insights From Trillion Data Points”</a> that this team is behind!</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">What You’ll Be Doing</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Lead end-to-end development of data tooling and frameworks, using modern technologies such as BigQuery, Apache Beam, Airflow, Dagster, dbt, Kubernetes, and Rust.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Ensure tight-knit collaboration with leadership, cross-functional stake-holders and senior engineers across the organization. Collaborate with leadership and senior engineers across the team to define the technical vision and build on the technical roadmap for Data Platform.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Work with Data Platform to ensure we have a platform with strong governance that respects our users’ privacy throughout.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Care deeply about business outcomes and constraints and keep them in mind as you solve hard, unbounded problems.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Coach and mentor the next generation of technical leaders at Discord.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">You Will Thrive In This Role If</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Empathy for both your internal and external users and seek feedback on your work.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Ability to approach problems with first principles thinking, embrace ambiguity, and enjoy collaborative work on complex solutions.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience defining architecture, tooling, and strategy for a large-scale data processing system.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Proactive in staying up-to-date with industry trends and assessing new technologies to enhanse problem solving capabilities.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Bonus Points</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience working with very high-scale data infrastructure and tooling</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience with data products on Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, or Airflow</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Full-stack development or product engineering experience</span></li>
</ul>
<hr>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><em>The US base salary range for this full-time position is $183,000 to $201,500 + 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.</em></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">#buildbelonging #LI-Remote #LI-Hybrid #LI-HY1</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Please see our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy for details regarding Discord’s collection and use of personal information relating to the application and recruitment process by clicking <a href="https://discord.com/terms/applicant-candidate-privacy-policy" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">here. </a></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Discord is an equal opportunity employer that believes diversity inspires creativity and innovation. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where employees can do their best work free of harassment or discrimination, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, military status, or any other protected characteristics or identities. We encourage all candidates to apply for roles where they may make the most impact.</p>
<h4>About Us</h4>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Discord is a voice, video and text app that helps friends come together to hang out, have fun, and play games. With over 150 million monthly users, Discord has grown to become one of the most popular communications services in the world. Discord offers a premium subscription called Nitro that gives users special perks like higher quality streams and fun customizations.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">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. <strong class=" font-semibold">So if this strikes a chord with you, come build belonging with us!</strong></p>