Staff Software Engineer - Media Infrastructure

February 8

🏄 California – Remote

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💵 $223k - $245k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Discord is a communication platform designed for creating communities. Users can chat via text, voice, or video, and the platform is known for its emphasis on gaming. It provides customized experiences with features like custom emojis, stickers, and soundboard effects. Discord supports seamless streaming with high quality and low latency, making it ideal for gamers to hang out and play games together online. It is accessible across various devices including PC, phone, and console. Additionally, Discord places a high priority on safety and moderation, offering resources and guidelines for keeping communities safe and engaging. It is widely used for social interactions, gaming, and community building.

Video Games • Text Chat • VOIP

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2015

🎮 Gaming

🌍 Social Impact

📡 Telecommunications

💰 $12G Venture Round on 2022-03

📋 Description

• Discord is used by over 200 million people every month for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does on our platform: play video games. • The Media Infrastructure team at Discord is responsible for managing the storage, processing, and delivery of over 100PB of user-generated media across millions of users. • As a Staff Software Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in architecting and evolving our media infrastructure to be scalable, high-performance, and cost-effective. • You’ll be working on core media systems that impact hundreds of millions of users daily. • Your work will help drive down costs while increasing engagement, making Discord a more expressive and engaging platform. • This is a high-impact role where you will drive related technical & product strategy, operations, architecture, and execution for one of the largest communication platforms in the world.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of experience writing and designing backend systems. • 10+ years of hands-on, professional software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages (Rust, C++, Python). • Extensive experience working with video encoding. • Strong literacy in video & image codecs and compatibility. • Experience solving complex problems within distributed systems. • Experience operating systems handling over 1M+ queries per second. • Ability to make practical trade-offs to keep projects moving forward. • Expertise in GraphQL, REST, HTTP, gRPC, Thrift, and API design. • Experience with distributed caching layers and large-scale data storage systems like Redis. • Familiarity with image processing and delivery technologies such as image scaling, cropping, and formats like progressive JPEG, WebP, etc. • Familiarity with streaming protocols (HLS, MPEG-DASH, MP4) and video compression standards (H.264, H.265/HEVC, VP9, AV1). • Working knowledge of CDN technologies (Fastly, Cloudflare, CloudFront) for video optimization. • Strong organizational skills, ability to prioritize tasks, and deliver projects on schedule. • Entrepreneurial mindset: self-directed, innovative, and action-oriented. • Excellent communication skills to collaborate effectively in a remote environment.

🏖️ Benefits

• equity • benefits