Discord
Senior Software Engineer- Database Infrastructure
San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties)unknownUSD 196,000–220,500
Skills
building distributed systemsdatastore infrastructurehighly-available and distributed databasesstatically-typed programming languages (Rust, Go, Java, C, C++)operating systems fundamentalsdistributed systems fundamentalsconcurrency control fundamentalsLinux internals
About the role
Senior Software Engineer- Database Infrastructure 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 Database Infrastructure team develops and operates all of Discord’s databases and data services. Those systems store the data of Discord's 200M+ monthly active users—including trillions of messages! We work across multiple areas: databases, disk storage and Rust-based data access services. We're a small team whose work has a huge impact on our company's success and ability to grow! Some blog posts from the team: - How Discord Indexes Trillions of Messages - Ho
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