Staff Software Engineer - Notifications Platform

Posted 13 Days Ago
2 Locations
Remote
Senior level
Gaming • Machine Learning • Mobile • Software
Discord is a voice, video and text app that helps friends and communities come together to talk and hang out.
The Role
As a Staff Software Engineer on the Notifications Platform team, you will design and develop a system to deliver billions of notifications daily. Your role will involve defining requirements, building a data collection pipeline, and scaling processes for user engagement, while mentoring other engineers.
Summary Generated by Built In

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. Over 90% of our users play games, spending a combined 1.5 billion hours playing thousands of unique titles on Discord each month. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games.

The Notifications Platform team is creating a unified system to deliver tens of billions of notifications a day to our users, across mobile push, SMS, email, and in-app. As a Staff Software Engineer on the team you will gather requirements, design and develop this system from scratch! Your work will ensure that Discord is able to reliably and efficiently engage users with relevant, timely information, while at the same time capturing data to generate insights and drive improvements.

What you'll be doing:

  • Building a platform that consolidates methods of sending notifications to our users
  • Defining the technical and functional requirements of the platform
  • Instrumenting services to establish a robust data collection pipeline
  • Scaling processes to handle hundreds of millions of users efficiently and reliably
  • Coaching and mentoring other engineers, enabling their development

What You Should Have:

  • 7+ years of experience building high-performance distributed systems.
  • Genuine interest and enthusiasm in solving complex technical problems, investigating regressions, and finding ways to improve our systems' performance.
  • Strong understanding of observability and monitoring.
  • Flexibility in undefined environments and excitement about devising solutions for complex technical challenges.
  • Familiarity with reading and writing code in large existing codebases.
  • Demonstrated capability and empathy when collaborating with other engineering teams to solve issues.
  • A wide range of experience across many domains and technologies, and a willingness to venture into new ones.
  • A desire to validate design decisions with data.

Bonus points:

  • Proficiency with Python, Elixir or Rust
  • Experience deploying scalable services on Kubernetes
  • Experience working with the GCP Pub/Sub service or other message brokers
  • Experience working with NoSQL databases (Cassandra, Scylla etc).
  • You have built or contributed to open source projects.


#LI-Remote
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $263,000 to $289,000 + 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.

Why Discord? 
Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Your future is just a click away!

Check out our inclusion, diversity and purpose efforts, company principles, or learn more about the Life @ Discord experience!

Top Skills

Elixir
Python
Rust
The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
900 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2015

What We Do

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.

Why Work With Us

Imagine a workplace that not only tolerates but celebrates the unique perspectives each and every person brings to it. One that is representative of the world we want to live, play and work in. Well, imagine no more. Just as Discord gives everyone the power to belong, we are building a workplace that is welcoming and inclusive from the inside out.

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