Principal Software Engineer - Infrastructure

Discord(22 hours ago)

HybridFull TimeSenior$400,000 - $450,000Infrastructure

About this role

Principal Engineer on Discord’s Infrastructure organization responsible for shaping long-term technical vision and ensuring the reliability and scalability of systems serving hundreds of millions of users. The role focuses on driving multi-year infrastructure roadmap and collaborating with leadership across the company to enable product innovation.

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Required Skills

Distributed Systems
Backend
Databases
Scalability
Reliability
Cloud
Google Cloud
Architecture
Mentorship
Communication

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About Discord

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Discord is a cross-platform voice, video, and text chat platform that lets people create customizable servers—organized into channels—for real-time communication around games, hobbies, work, and communities. It provides low-latency voice, video calls, screen sharing and streaming, robust moderation and role-based permissions, plus extensibility through bots, integrations, and developer APIs. Millions of users and organizations rely on Discord across desktop, mobile, and web for casual hangouts, live events, and coordinated teamwork. Core features are free, with optional Nitro subscriptions and server boosts that unlock higher-quality media and other premium perks.