Software Engineer - Realtime Infrastructure

Discord(1 month ago)

Bay AreaOnsiteFull TimeMedior$160,000 - $180,000Engineering

About this role

The Realtime Infrastructure team builds and maintains Discord’s high-scale, critical services that power text chat and session updates. This role has significant impact on the platform’s overall reliability and performance and enables product teams to build new features on top of the realtime layer. The position reports to the Senior Engineering Manager of Realtime Infrastructure and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Required Skills

Distributed Systems
Backend Development
Production Operations
Monitoring
Alerting
Infrastructure Management
Software Engineering
Cloud
DevOps
Elixir

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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.