Senior Storage Engineer- Persistence Infrastructure
The Storage Infrastructure team builds and operates large-scale database systems that serve Discord's more than 150M monthly active users. We provide reliable and performant data storage services storing 100s of billions of data points. We're a small team who's work has a huge impact on our company's success and ability to grow. If that sounds exciting to you, read on!
What you'll be doing
- Build reliable and performant transactional data storage systems that are friendly to operate.
- Collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to develop storage services that facilitate their success.
- Help influence our storage infrastructure roadmap
- Exercise First Principles Thinking to always deliver what matters most to our users.
- Mentor and help grow junior engineers.
- Work with a talented team of engineers who have built one of the largest communication platforms in the world.
What you should have
- 4+ years of experience building distributed systems and infrastructure
- Experience with distributed databases (Cassandra, Scylla, DynamoDB, BigTable, etc.)
- Familiarity with Linux internals
- Experience solving complex distributed system problems. Knowledge of monitoring and alerting best practices.
- Comfortable working in fast paced environments.
Bonus Points
- Experience with Rust.
- Experience working with systems deployed in a cloud environment (GCP, AWS, etc.)
- Knowledge of DevOps tools like Salt, Terraform or Kubernetes.
New York City residents only: Minimum salary of $186,000/year + equity and benefits
*Note: Disclosure as required by NYC Pay Transparency Law.
Colorado residents only: Minimum salary of $148,800/year + equity and benefits
*Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085(8-5-20).
- Comprehensive medical insurance including Health, Dental and Vision (plus up to $20,000 for gender affirmation procedures)
- Mental health resources and quarterly wellness stipends
- 16+ paid holidays, 4 weeks of PTO + use-what-you-need sick days
- Paid parental leave (plus fertility, adoption and other family planning benefits)
- Flexible long-term work options (remote and hybrid)
- Volunteer time off
- A diverse slate of Employee Resource Groups
- Plus commuter contributions and other perks for office-based employees
About Us
Discord is a voice, video and text app that helps friends and communities come together to hang out and explore their interests — from artists and activists, to study groups, sneakerheads, plant parents, and more. With 150 million monthly users across 19 million active communities, called servers, Discord has grown to become one of the most popular communications services in the world. Discord was built without selling ads or user data and instead, offers a premium subscription called Nitro that gives users special perks like higher quality streams and fun customizations.
We’re working toward an inclusive world where no one feels like an outsider, where genuine human connection is a click, text chat, or voice call away. A place where everyone can find belonging. Challenging? Heck yes. Rewarding? Double heck yes. It’s a mission that gives us the chance to positively impact millions of people all over the world. So if this strikes a chord with you, come build belonging with us!