Senior Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

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💵 $263k - $289.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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Discord

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Video Games • Text Chat • VOIP

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2015

🎮 Gaming

🌍 Social Impact

📡 Telecommunications

💰 $12G Venture Round on 2022-03

Description

• Design, develop, and maintain data infrastructure and services. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver modern solutions that drive business insights. • Define and execute the technical vision for Discord's data platform, enabling scalable and reliable data systems. • Build monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure the health and performance of data services. • Promote and drive best practices in data governance, security, and compliance across the organization. • Provide technical leadership and mentor junior engineers.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on large-scale distributed systems or data infrastructure. • Expertise in building and maintaining scalable data platforms, including data ingestion pipelines, stream processing, and batch processing systems. • Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, Rust, or similar. • Proficiency with open source data projects and experience working with open source communities. • Hands-on experience with modern data technologies such as Kafka, Spark, Flink, Airflow/Dagster, or similar. • Deep understanding of database systems (e.g., SQL, NoSQL, columnar storage) and data modeling principles. • Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), containerization tools (Docker, Kubernetes), and microservices architecture. • Excellent communication skills with a demonstrated ability to collaborate and influence across teams and levels. • Proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.