Senior Software Engineer - API Platform

The API Platform team is responsible for the core functionality and reliability of Discord's API layer, a large distributed service handling approximately 500 thousand requests per second and tens of thousands of asynchronous jobs per second. Through developing and operating the core components of the API, our work allows internal developers to rapidly and safely deliver new features to production - and allows users to send billions of messages a day.

As an API Platform engineer, you will continuously improve our codebase, processes, and infrastructure - affecting nearly every interaction users have on Discord!

What You'll Be Doing:

• Ensure the reliable and efficient operation of critical systems that serve millions of users daily.
• Write code but also manage our infrastructure.
• Enable dozens of teams to deploy code to production quickly and safely.
• Use and enhance observability tools to troubleshoot complex issues.
• Become a vital part of a small team of talented engineers passionate about keeping Discord running smoothly.

What you have:

• 5+ years of experience designing and developing backend systems.
• Experience scaling distributed systems
• Experience operating complex services in a production environment
• Familiarity with open source software, and the ability to dig into a library's source code to find the answer you're looking for.
• Confidence making tradeoffs when leading projects to ensure constant progress.

Bonus Points:

• Experience with Python or Rust.
• Experience deploying and managing containerized applications with Kubernetes
• Experience with Google Pub/Sub or other message queue systems
• A deep understanding of Python runtime internals or the gevent library
• You have built or contributed to open source projects.
• You are a Discord power user and have built bots or apps interacting with our platform.

Candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties). Relocation assistance may be available.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $196,000 to $220,500 + 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.