Senior Software Engineer - Media Infrastructure

This position is US based only.

Discord is about giving people the power to create space to find belonging in their lives. We want to make it easier for you to talk regularly with the people you care about. We want you to build genuine relationships with your friends and communities close to home or around the world. Original, reliable, playful, and relatable. These are the values that connect our users and our employees at Discord.

We're on the lookout for an Senior Software Engineer for our Media Infrastructure team! If the thought of managing the storage, processing, and delivery of over 100PB of user-generated media across millions of Discord users thrills you - let's talk! We're all about ensuring these media are managed efficiently, securely, cost-effectively.

Our team has recently made significant strides in enhancing Discord’s media capabilities:

• Instrumented Discord Client for media performance metrics.
• Numerous improvements to the video playback experience on Discord mobile.
• Preserving image color profile data when performing image transformations.
• Link signing to reduce misuse of Discord attachment hosting.

• And much more! See our recent patch notes from April and May.

As a Media Infrastructure engineer at Discord, you'll be at the forefront of media innovation. You’ll oversee the entire lifecycle of media on our platform and create the core components that enable our product teams to introduce new media features.

What you'll be doing:

• Solve incredibly hard scaling challenges.
• Ensure our systems are fast, reliable, and efficient.
• Collaborate with product teams to add new features.
• Write code and manage our media infrastructure.
• Be empowered to improve media ingest & delivery at every point in the stack.
• Be data-driven, ensuring processes can be monitored and measuring impact with data.
• Work with a talented team of engineers who have built one of the largest media serving infrastructures in the world.

What you should have:

• 5+ years of experience in writing and designing backend systems.
• Experience solving complex problems within distributed systems
• Experience operating systems handling over 1M+ queries per second.
• Familiarity with open-source software and the ability to dive into source code to find answers.
• A knack for making practical trade-offs when leading projects to ensure constant progress.
• Strong literacy in video & image …