Full-Time Staff Software Engineer, Media 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 Media Infrastructure team at Discord is responsible for managing the storage, processing, and delivery of over 100PB of user-generated media across millions of users. As a Staff Software Engineer on the team, you will play a pivotal role in architecting and evolving our media infrastructure to be scalable, high-performance, and cost-effective.

What Makes This Role Exciting

• You’ll be working on core media systems that impact hundreds of millions of users daily.
• Every time users engage with animated GIFs, emojis, or video content, they interact with the systems you help build.
• Your work will help drive down costs while increasing engagement, making Discord a more expressive and engaging platform.
• You’ll be tackling complex problems in video encoding, playback performance, and media storage optimization.
• This is a high-impact role where you will drive related technical & product strategy, operations, architecture, and execution for one of the largest communication platforms in the world.

What You'll Be Doing

• Solving incredibly hard scaling challenges in media storage and delivery.
• Ensuring our systems are fast, reliable, and efficient.
• Working cross-functionally with product, design, and engineering teams to build innovative features.
• Architecting and evolving Discord’s media infrastructure to deliver scalable, high-performance solutions.
• Contributing to the full development cycle: technical design, development, testing, experimentation, analysis, and launch.
• Reviewing code and design docs, providing feedback on product specs, and guiding development efforts.
• Leading and mentoring a team of talented engineers, defining best practices, and improving workflows.
• Improving media ingest & delivery at every point in the stack.
• Utilizing data-driven insights to monitor processes and measure impact.
• Collaborating with a team that has built one of the largest media-serving infrastructures in the world.

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