As an Engineer on the Safety Experience team, you’ll help make Discord’s platform safer for hundreds of millions of users. You’ll contribute to designing, building, and maintaining product features and systems that prevent harmful activities while ensuring regulatory compliance. Keeping users safe is essential for Discord’s growth, making your team’s work critical. This role reports to the Engineering Manager of Safety Experience.

What You'll Be Doing

• Contribute to the development of highly visible, user-facing products that protect Discord’s users.
• Design, build, and deploy production APIs, backend services, and data pipelines to launch safety features at scale.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, Policy, Data Science, ML, Legal, and T&S Operations to create solutions that are both impactful and lovable.
• Support rapid responses to the ever-evolving abuse and compliance landscape.

What you should have

• 2+ years of experience writing Python and utilizing back-end API frameworks (Flask, Django).
• 2+ years of experience developing front-end interfaces with JavaScript (React, TypeScript) for both web and mobile platforms.
• Familiarity with databases such as Cassandra, Postgres, and ScyllaDB.
• Ability to contribute to end-to-end delivery of projects: working through ambiguity, participating in rollouts, and communicating with stakeholders.
• Ability to troubleshoot, debug, and test complex systems in a live, production environment.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work well with cross-functional partners, designers, and other engineers.
• Experience using metrics and dashboards to make data-driven decisions.

Bonus Points

• Interest in the Safety or Anti-Abuse domain.
• Experience analyzing and visualizing data using Datadog or Mode.
• Familiarity with real-time streaming systems like Kafka or Pub-Sub.
• Ability to contribute to offline analytics jobs and processes.
• Experience building and operating mobile-client features on iOS and Android.
• Exposure to lower-level languages such as Go, Rust, and Elixir.
• A strong moral compass that drives you to protect users and do the right thing.

Candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties). Relocation assistance may be available. For this role, there is no formal requirement to work from the office. The US base salary range for this full-time position is $160,000 to $180,000 + 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.

We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Mobile Architecture team to help lead the technical vision for Discord's mobile experience across iOS and Android.

You'll work on performance-critical systems using React Native, focusing on delivering an exceptional mobile experience that feels instantaneous. As a Staff Engineer, you'll drive technical direction, mentor other engineers, and tackle the most complex challenges facing our mobile platforms. Our goal is to build products that our customers absolutely love—products that are functional, reliable, usable, and delightful, with performance as a core feature.

What you'll be doing

• Lead technical direction and architecture decisions for Discord's mobile platform, particularly around React Native optimization and performance
• Build and optimize foundational mobile libraries and infrastructure that power Discord's mobile apps on iOS and Android
• Drive solutions to challenging performance problems including Time-to-Interactive (TTI), memory optimization, crash reduction, and jank elimination
• Lead React Native infrastructure initiatives and upgrades, helping maintain Discord's position at the forefront of RN adoption
• Architect scalable mobile solutions using React Native, TypeScript/JavaScript, with native development in Swift/Kotlin when needed for performance-critical paths
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and influence technical decisions across the organization
• Mentor engineers on the team and help elevate the technical capabilities of the mobile organization
• Set best practices and engineering standards for mobile development at Discord

What you should have

• 8+ years experience as a software engineer working on large, cross-platform software projects.
• 1+ years experience as a software engineer working on a production React Native application at scale, and/or React Native foundational libraries.
• Experience writing clean, maintainable code and establishing engineering best practices
• Problem-solving mindset with ability to debug complex issues across the stack
• Passion for creating excellent user experiences and attention to performance details
• Excellent communication skills with ability to influence technical decisions and build consensus
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and guide other engineers

Bonus Points

• Native mobile development experience (iOS with Swift/Objective-C or Android with Kotlin/Java)
• Experience with mobile performance optimization and profiling tools
• Background in build and release processes for mobile apps
• Active participation in the React or React Native communities
• Experience optimizing applications for varying network conditions or international markets

Candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties). Relocation assistance may be available.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $248,000 to $279,000 + 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.

We're looking for someone who gets excited about building data infrastructure at massive scale and cares deeply about the gaming communities we serve. Someone with passion for building lovable products for Discord users and Discord engineers. We're building the next generation Data Platform that powers decisions for one of the most vibrant platforms in the world.

If you're the kind of Staff Engineer who sees ambiguity as an invitation — who builds systems that make whole teams faster, shapes technical strategy across the org, and wants your decisions to directly impact millions of gamers worldwide — we want to talk to you.

To learn more about Discord's Data Platform, read our engineering blog, including how we built our modern data stack leveraging open-source tools!

This position is based in our San Francisco office.

What You'll Be Doing

• Own the technical direction of major Data Platform initiatives like GRC, scaling, or stream processing, from problem to production system and post-launch health
• Be a force multiplier: build reusable primitives, unblock teammates, and raise the quality bar across the team
• Stay a top code contributor. You write real production code while helping others reach the same bar
• Partner with XFN stakeholders to translate business problems into clear technical strategy
• Champion debate, decide, and commit and 80/20 thinking to drive robust technical solutions supporting multiple team

What you should have

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of driving large, ambiguous technical initiatives end-to-end
• Expertise in distributed systems and data infrastructure at scale. You've anticipated hard problems before they became incidents
• Demonstrated ability to multiply a team's impact through architectural thought leadership, design reviews, reusable abstractions, and well-timed mentorship
• Strong technical judgment: when to go fast vs. slow, when to build vs. integrate, and how to bring stakeholders along
• Cross-functional influence: you've driven alignment across engineering, product, and business without relying on authority

Bonus Points

• Passion for Discord and gaming
• Experience with data governance, privacy compliance, real-time analytics infrastructure, or cost optimization in large-scale data environments

Candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties). Relocation assistance may be available.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $248,000 to $279,000 + 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.

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
• How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages
• How Discord Supercharges Network Disks for Extreme Low-Latency

You will:

• Build and operate large-scale, reliable and performant data systems with ScyllaDB, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, Linux and Rust.
• Collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to develop storage primitives enabling all of Discord.
• Exercise "First Principles Thinking" to always deliver what matters most to our users.
• Work with a talented team of engineers who have built one of the largest communication platforms in the world.

You have:

• 2-4 years of experience with building backend infrastructure
• Ability to troubleshoot, debug, and test complex systems in a live, production environment
• Strong operating systems, distributed systems, and concurrency control fundamentals
• Proficiency with at least one statically-typed programming language: e.g. Rust, Go, Java, C, C++
• Comfortable working in fast paced environments

Bonus Points:

• Experience with highly-available and distributed databases: e.g. ScyllaDB, Cassandra, Vitess, Postgres w/HA, etc.
• Experience with Rust
• Knowledge of DevOps tools like Salt, Terraform or Kubernetes

More things that might interest you:

• We’ve tackled a lot of fascinating technical challenges over the years, and blogged about it regularly:
  • How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages
  • 25% or 6 to 4: The 11/6/23 Authentication Outage
  • How Discord Supercharges Network Disks for Extreme Low Latency
  • Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust
  • How Discord Indexes Billions of Messages
  • How Discord Stores Billions of Messages
  • How Discord Indexes Trillions of Messages
• One of our team members even wrote a book on ScyllaDB
• We present at conferences:
  • How Discord Indexes Trillions of Messages by Vicki Niu
  • How Discord Performs Database Upgrades at Scale by Ethan Donowitz

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $160,000 to $180,000 + 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.

We're looking for a Privacy Engineer to join us in protecting the data of Discord's users and enabling great experiences through responsible data use. We build systems to meet the privacy expectations of our users and enable other teams at Discord to do the same. If you are an engineer with a passion for privacy, a deep sense of curiosity, and an endless desire to improve Discord for our users, read on!

What you will do:

• Ensure user privacy is upheld across all aspects of Discord, from data collection and processing through to deletion.
• Develop technical tools and solutions that advance privacy at Discord, like enhancing privacy review processes through code and dataflow analysis and enforcing data minimization.
• Partner with cross-functional teams, including Engineering, Product, Data, and Legal, to conduct risk assessments, code and design reviews, and ensure compliance with Discord’s Privacy Principles and regulatory requirements.
• Analyze privacy incidents for root causes and work with security and platform teams to ensure we are monitoring for new privacy risks.

What you have:

• A passion for user privacy and data protection.
• 1+ years experience protecting user data and user privacy through tools or processes, such as code review, data mapping, and static analysis. You are familiar with privacy enhancing technologies.
• You have a working knowledge of privacy by design and industry applications of consent, data deletion, and retention.
• You can ship code in at least one general programming language (such as Python, JavaScript, Go, or Rust)

Bonus Points:

• You are familiar with privacy threat models like LINNDUN
• You have experience applying statistical privacy techniques like k-anonymization
• You are familiar with using modern AI tooling to gain leverage in your work
• Experience developing, operating, and debugging distributed systems.
• Experience with modern cloud and data platform infrastructure
• Experience integrating internal systems with privacy and risk management platforms

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $160,000 to $180,000 + 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.

Discord is on a mission to create space for everyone to find belonging. Trusted by millions of people to keep their communications private and out of the hands of evildoers, Security and Privacy are necessary to Discord's success.

We're looking for a Senior Privacy Engineer to join us in protecting Discord's users. If you are an engineer with a passion for privacy, a deep sense of curiosity, and an endless desire to improve Discord for our users, read on!

What You'll Be Doing:

• Build and operate the systems that enable data rights for our users across the data lifecycle, including collection, access, and deletion.
• Own end to end software development of new tools and scalable solutions to optimize the work of the Discord Privacy Program and enable teams to use user data effectively and responsibly in a complex cloud environment.
• Partner with cross-functional teams, including Engineering, Product, Data, and Legal to conduct risk assessments, code reviews, and ensure compliance with Discord’s Privacy Principles and regulatory requirements.
• Advocate for privacy-preserving solutions, act as a privacy subject matter expert across teams, and identify new opportunities to promote our privacy posture.
• Lead Privacy incident response efforts, including mitigating situations that may pose a risk to our Privacy Principles and providing assistance in incident response efforts outside of the privacy domain.

What you should have:

• A passion for user privacy and data protection.
• 3+ years of work experience in Privacy or Security engineering or building production systems that meet legal requirements.
• 3+ years of experience in at least one general purpose programming language (e.g. Python, Rust, Typescript).
• 3+ years of experience working in cloud-based environments (we use Google Cloud).
• Experience with concepts and practices such as threat modeling, data lifecycle management, and data classification
• Familiarity with privacy concerns that apply in an industry setting, including consent, deletion, and retention, and a basic understanding of regulations such as GDPR or CCPA.
• Experience with conducting reviews of system architecture and product feature specs and driving mitigations of data protection risk, deviations from privacy policies, and privacy dark patterns

Bonus Points: 

• Experience developing, operating, and debugging distributed systems.
• Experience with modern data platform infrastructure
• Experience integrating internal systems with privacy and risk management platforms

Candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties). Relocation assistance may be available.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $196,000 to $220,500 + 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.

Discord is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to build high-performance, cross-platform client software that powers experiences for 200+ million users worldwide. You'll work on core libraries that run across Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS—writing native code using platform-specific APIs to provide optimal experiences wherever people use Discord.

As a Senior Software Engineer on our A/V Client team, you'll tackle challenging performance problems, design systems that scale across diverse hardware configurations, and build the foundation that enables real-time experiences for millions of concurrent users.

What you'll be doing:

• Build core libraries that power Discord's client experiences across desktop, browser, and mobile platforms (Rust, C++, and Typescript)
• Optimize performance end-to-end across all supported platforms
• Design and run experiments with proper success criteria and statistical rigor to validate improvements
• Debug complex issues across diverse hardware and platform configurations
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ship features that delight millions of users

What you should have:

• 4+ years building large-scale, cross-platform software (Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, or game console development)
• Strong Rust or C++ skills with deep understanding of memory management, multi-threading, and low-level optimization
• Experience building performance-critical applications where milliseconds matter

Bonus points:

• Experience designing experiments that prove (not just suggest) improvements
• Experience with real-time media applications (audio/video, game streaming, etc.)
• Hands-on experience with WebRTC, SDP, SRTP, or DTLS protocols
• Familiarity with audio/video codecs (Opus, H.264, AV1, etc.) and their corresponding quality measurements (POLQA, PSNR, VMAF, etc.)
• Proficiency with CPU, GPU, and memory profiling—you can identify bottlenecks, optimize critical paths, and manage resource constraints effectively
• You have built or contributed to open source projects

Candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties). For this role, the hiring manager would like folks to be in the office 1 day a week. Relocation assistance may be available. 

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $196,000 to $245,000 + 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.

As a Staff Engineer on the Safety Experience team, you'll be a technical leader who autonomously delivers real business impact on large, ambiguous projects. You'll design and build product features and systems that prevent harmful activities at scale while ensuring regulatory compliance. This role requires both deep technical expertise and the ability to be a force multiplier for your team: driving engineering excellence, making solid technical decisions, and remaining a top code contributor. You'll work cross-functionally to shape the technical direction of safety initiatives that protect hundreds of millions of Discord users. This role reports to the Engineering Manager of Safety Experience.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead development of high-impact, user-facing safety products that deliver measurable results for Discord's users.
• Own complex, multi-milestone projects end-to-end, identifying optimal solutions, navigating ambiguity and making independent technical decisions.
• Design, build, and deploy robust production APIs, backend services, and data pipelines that enable safety features to scale efficiently.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, Policy, Data Science, ML, Legal, and Trust & Safety Operations to create solutions that are both impactful and lovable.
• Drive engineering excellence by mentoring others and guiding the team through architectural challenges to ensure long-term scalability.
• Respond rapidly to the ever-evolving abuse and compliance landscape with strategic thinking and swift execution.

What you should have

• 8+ years of relevant industry experience, with demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality, high-impact work on complex projects.
• Strong expertise in Python and back-end API frameworks (Flask, Django).
• Strong front-end development skills with JavaScript (React, TypeScript) for web and mobile platforms.
• Significant experience in the Safety or Anti-Abuse domain with deep understanding of trust and safety challenges at scale.
• Proven track record of owning large projects end-to-end with varying degrees of ambiguity, breaking down work into well-prioritized milestones with clear dependencies.
• Demonstrated ability to make independent technical decisions that balance short-term needs with long-term sustainability and scalability.
• Experience driving engineering excellence: setting quality standards, conducting thorough code reviews, and applying an adversarial mindset to identify security, performance, and scaling issues.
• Strong communication skills with ability to provide high-quality technical feedback, drive alignment across stakeholders, and facilitate productive debates that lead to clear decisions.
• Experience using metrics and dashboards (e.g., Datadog, Mode, Faros) to make data-driven decisions and monitor system health.
• Ability to be a force multiplier for your team by mentoring others, establishing best practices, and helping teammates grow their skills.
• Experience utilizing AI tools like Claude Code and Cursor to supercharge dev workflows

Bonus Points

• Familiarity with databases such as Cassandra, Postgres, or ScyllaDB.
• Experience with real-time streaming systems like Kafka or Pub-Sub.
• Track record of building and operating native mobile features on iOS and Android.
• Experience designing and implementing monitoring strategies and on-call/on-point processes for production systems.
• Knowledge of lower-level languages such as Go, Rust, or Elixir.

Candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties). Relocation assistance may be available.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $248,000 to $310,000 + 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.

Every day, hundreds of millions of gamers gather on Discord to hang out, strategize their next raid, celebrate tournament victories, and build communities around the games they love. Behind every voice channel, every streamer Go Live, every Quest completed, there's data, petabytes of it, telling the story of how people connect through gaming.

We're looking for an Engineering Manager who gets excited about building world-class teams and data infrastructure at massive scale. Someone who cares deeply about the communities we serve and is passionate about developing engineers who build lovable products for Discord users and Discord engineers alike. You'll lead a team building the next generation Data Platform that powers decisions for one of the most vibrant platforms in the world.

If you're the kind of leader who lights up when coaching engineers, making tough technical decisions, and wants your team's work to directly impact millions worldwide, we want to talk to you.

To learn more about Discord's Data Platform, read our engineering blog, including how we built our modern data stack leveraging open-source tools!

This position is based in our San Francisco office.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead and grow one or more teams of engineers building data infrastructure that processes petabytes of data across millions of users
• Partner with People and Technical leaders to set technical direction and define the roadmap for your team(s)
• Drive a culture of 80/20 thinking, quality-centered execution, and timely decision-making to ensure your team consistently ships high-impact results
• Build strong relationships with cross-functional partners to align technical solutions with business goals
• Help your team navigate ambiguity while maintaining momentum toward business outcomes

What you should have

• 2+ years of engineering leadership and 7+ years of software engineering experience with expertise in large-scale distributed systems or data infrastructure
• Strong people management skills including hiring, performance management, coaching, and conflict resolution
• Demonstrated ability to set the pace for a team, remove blockers, and drive projects to completion
• Excellent communication skills with ability to foster clear, effective dialogue across all levels and audiences
• Proven track record independently making sound technical decisions through ambiguity in partnership with cross-functional stakeholders
• Experience with the data ecosystem: pipelines, ETL, modeling, and/or warehousing (Kafka, Spark, Flink, Airflow, Dagster, SQL, etc.)
• Cloud infrastructure knowledge (AWS, GCP, Azure) or containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

Candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties). Relocation assistance may be available.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $248,000 to $279,000 + 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.

The Safety Processing team is responsible for the systems that power Discord's ability to detect, review, and enforce against harmful content at scale. We build the infrastructure and decision systems that enable accurate, efficient, and fair content moderation across all of Discord. We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer who can handle complex, multi-milestone projects and deliver high-quality systems that protect millions of users daily.

As a Senior Engineer on Safety Processing, you'll take full ownership of projects from initial design through post-launch monitoring and iteration. You'll work on challenging problems at the intersection of automation, large-scale distributed systems, and content safety. You'll help build automated decision systems that scale our review capacity by 10x, develop enforcement infrastructure that handles millions of decisions per day, or architect systems that centralize and simplify safety signal processing. You'll collaborate closely with Trust & Safety operations, ML teams, Policy, and product partners to deliver solutions that make Discord safer while maintaining our commitment to user experience. You'll deliver lovable products while maintaining Discord's high quality bar, utilizing 80/20 thinking and a user-centric approach. You'll embody a growth mindset, diving into new code and technologies to deliver safety solutions that protect millions of users daily. This person reports to the Engineering Manager of Safety Processing.

This role offers the opportunity to work on systems that directly impact user safety, tackle novel technical challenges in content moderation at scale, and help shape the future of how Discord keeps communities safe.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Own complex safety infrastructure projects end-to-end, from initial design through post-launch monitoring and iteration
• Build and maintain critical systems for automated content review, enforcement, and safety signal processing at massive scale
• Apply an adversarial mindset to your work, thinking through security, abuse scenarios, edge cases, and scalability concerns to protect Discord's users
• Collaborate with Trust & Safety, ML, Policy, and product teams to understand requirements and deliver effective safety solutions
• Break down complex, multi-milestone projects into smaller work streams while managing stakeholders and dependencies across teams
• Debug and resolve issues within the team's codebase and adjacent systems, participating in on-call rotations
• Contribute to technical design discussions and documentation, writing RFCs
• Help establish best practices and maintain the team's quality bar through code reviews and mentorship

What You Should Have:

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience with a focus on backend services and infrastructure
• Strong programming skills in Python
• Experience building and operating distributed systems and production services at scale
• Demonstrated ability to own projects end-to-end and deliver results on time
• Strong debugging skills and ability to navigate complex codebases
• Excellent collaboration skills and ability to work effectively with cross-functional partners
• Experience working in larger engineering organizations with multiple teams and stakeholders
• A quality-centered mindset with attention to the right details at every stage of development
• Demonstrated adversarial thinking - ability to anticipate misuse, edge cases, and system vulnerabilities
• Experience with distributed systems concepts and cloud platforms (GCP/AWS)
• Experience being in 24/7 on-call rotations
• Strong collaboration and communication skills

Bonus Points:

• Experience with content moderation, trust & safety, or related problem domains
• Experience with workflow automation or decision systems
• Experience with ML/LLM integration and prompt engineering
• Experience with observability tools, metrics, and monitoring systems at scale
• Experience with cloud platforms (GCP/AWS)
• A strong passion for Discord and making online communities safer

Candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties). Relocation assistance may be available.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $196,000 to $220,500 + 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.

Our Web Platform team is responsible for building and maintaining the critical systems that power Discord's frontend development across web, desktop, and mobile platforms. These systems support hundreds of engineers daily, process thousands of builds and deployments, and enable rapid feature delivery through robust tooling infrastructure. Through developing and operating foundational JavaScript build systems - including linters, bundlers, package managers, and CI/CD automation - our work allows internal developers to ship features quickly and safely while ensuring optimal performance, correctness, and developer ergonomics. This team also owns the localization and translation systems that power the strings and copy found across all of our apps and platforms.

As a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you will continuously improve our build tooling, developer workflows, and infrastructure - affecting the productivity of every frontend engineer at Discord and ultimately every user interaction on the platform!

What You'll Be Doing:

• Building and maintaining the tools, pipelines, and processes that keep frontend development at Discord fast, safe, and reliable.
• Becoming an expert in JavaScript tooling and serving as a resource to help teams solve any and all problems they encounter during development.
• Refactoring and upgrading the codebase to pay down tech debt, keep up with the state of the art in web development, and drive progress toward better maintainability.
• Writing new and unique tools based on the specific needs of Discord’s frontend projects to make everything Just Work.
• Digging deep into bundlers, linters, formatters, editor plugins, and more to optimize their performance, adopt and test new features early on, and continuously improve the experience for the developers using them.

What you have:

• 3+ years of working with JavaScript tools and the Node.js ecosystem.
• Familiarity with and a desire to work across multiple programming languages (generally including JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Rust, Kotlin, Go, and Swift).
• Experience developing and maintaining CLI tools and packages in JavaScript.
• A strong sense for writing maintainable code and deliberately documenting for the future.
• Understanding of all of the tools involved in frontend development and how they work together.

Bonus Points:

• Familiarity and experience with localization in frontend applications.
• Familiarity with React Native, related tools (Metro, Hermes), and bridging between JavaScript and native code.
• Experience with directly maintaining or writing plugins for tools like bundlers, linters, or formatters in any language.
• Experience with CI/CD orchestration, Cloudflare workers, cloud storage providers, and other application deployment processes.

Candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties). Relocation assistance may be available.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $196,000 to $220,500 + 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.

Every day, hundreds of millions of gamers gather on Discord to hang out, strategize their next raid, celebrate tournament victories, and build communities around the games they love. Behind every voice channel, every streamer Go Live, every Quest completed, there's data, petabytes of it, telling the story of how people connect through gaming.

We're looking for someone who gets excited about building data infrastructure at massive scale and cares deeply about the gaming communities we serve. Someone with passion for building lovable products for Discord users and Discord engineers. We’re building the next generation Data Platform that powers decisions for one of the most vibrant platforms in the world.

If you're the kind of Software Engineer who lights up when talking about distributed systems, cares deeply about user privacy, grounding decisions in data, and wants your work to directly impact millions of gamers worldwide, we want to talk to you.

To learn more about Discord’s Data Platform, read our engineering blog, including how we built our modern data stack leveraging open-source tools!

What You'll Be Doing

• Build and maintain data infrastructure processing petabytes of data across millions of users
• Write clean, well-tested code for data ingestion, transformation, and serving systems
• Own projects end-to-end with guidance from senior engineers. From design through deployment and production support
• Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and product teams to deliver solutions that power Discord's insights

What You Should Have

• 3+ years of software engineering experience with strong programming skills in Python, Java, Rust, Go, or similar
• Solid CS fundamentals and demonstrated ability to quickly learn new technologies and ramp up on unfamiliar systems
• Proven debugging skills and growth mindset. You seek feedback and continuously improve
• Strong collaboration skills and ability to clearly explain technical concepts to different audiences

Bonus Points

• Passion for Discord and gaming
• Experience with the data ecosystem: pipelines, ETL, modeling, or warehousing (Kafka, Spark, Flink, Airflow, Dagster, SQL, etc.)
• Cloud infrastructure knowledge (AWS, GCP, Azure) or containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

Candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties). Relocation assistance may be available.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $160,000 to $180,000 + 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.

We are seeking an accomplished and experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our dynamic team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining our data infrastructure and services. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including data engineers, data scientists, software engineers, and product managers, to deliver modern and bleeding-edge solutions that drive business insights and innovation. This role reports to our Director of Engineering, Data Platform.

To learn more about Discord’s Data Platform, read our engineering blog — including how we built our modern data stack leveraging open-source tools!

This position is based in our San Francisco office.

What You'll Be Doing

• Define and execute the technical vision for Discord's data platform, enabling scalable, reliable, and performant data systems.
• Design, implement, and optimize data infrastructure to process and analyze petabytes of data across millions of users.
• Develop innovative data architectures to support analytics, machine learning, and operational insights.
• Build monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure the health and performance of data services.
• Partner with data scientists, data engineers, product managers, and leadership to align technical solutions with business goals.
• Promote and drive best practices in data governance, security, and compliance across the organization.
• Provide technical leadership, mentor junior engineers, and foster a culture of excellence and continuous improvement.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies in data platform.

What You Should Have

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on large-scale distributed systems or data infrastructure.
• Expertise in building and maintaining scalable data platforms, including data ingestion pipelines, stream processing, and batch processing systems.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, Rust, or similar.
• Proficiency with open source data projects and experience working with open source communities.
• Hands-on experience with modern data technologies such as Kafka, Spark, Flink, Airflow/Dagster, or similar.
• Deep understanding of database systems (e.g., SQL, NoSQL, columnar storage) and data modeling principles.
• Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), containerization tools (Docker, Kubernetes), and microservices architecture.
• Excellent communication skills with a demonstrated ability to collaborate and influence across teams and levels.
• Proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.

Bonus Points

• A strong passion for Discord and gaming.
• Open source contributions to data-related projects.

Candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties). Relocation assistance may be available.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $196,000 to $245,000 + 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.

Discord's Infrastructure organization is the backbone of everything our users experience. From the real-time delivery of 40M+ events per second to storing trillions of messages, our systems power the connections between 200M+ active users. As a Principal Engineer in this organization, you'll operate across our infrastructure teams to shape our technical vision and keep Discord running reliably at massive scale.

This is a role for someone who thrives at the intersection of deep technical expertise and organizational leadership. You'll contribute to the long-term infrastructure roadmap, tackle our most complex and ambiguous technical challenges, and ensure Discord's systems remain reliable, efficient, and ready for the next 200M users.

You will:

• Lead Discord's most critical infrastructure initiatives.
• Define and drive the technical vision and multi-year roadmap for Infrastructure, aligning teams around shared architectural principles.
• Partner with leadership across the company to ensure infrastructure capabilities enable product innovation.
• Design systems that balance reliability, cost-efficiency, and scalability.
• Mentor and grow senior engineers across multiple teams, raising the technical bar organization-wide.
• Represent Discord's engineering culture externally through blog posts, conference talks, and open source contributions.

You have:

• 10+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience architecting complex infrastructure serving hundreds of millions of users with strict uptime requirements.
• Deep expertise in backend systems, databases, and the operational realities of running systems at scale.
• Ability to navigate significant ambiguity and make sound technical decisions that hold up over time.
• Experience influencing technical direction across many teams without direct authority.
• Strong communication skills and you can articulate complex technical concepts to any audience and build alignment around your vision.
• A passion for mentorship and raising the capabilities of engineers around you.

Bonus points:

• Experience with Rust, Elixir, or Python in production systems.
• Expertise with distributed databases like ScyllaDB, Cassandra, or similar.
• Expertise building large scale chat products.
• History of open source contributions.

Things that might interest you:

• Our languages: Rust, Elixir, and Python.
• Our databases: ScyllaDB, Postgres and Elasticsearch.
• Our systems are deployed in Google Cloud.
• Our infrastructure teams shared many blog posts over the years. Some highlights:
• How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages
• Maxjourney: Pushing Discord’s Limits with a Million+ Online Users in a Single Server
• Modern Image Formats at Discord: Supporting WebP and AVIF
• How Discord Supercharges Network Disks for Extreme Low Latency
• Using Rust to Scale Elixir for 11 Million Concurrent Users
• Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust
• One of our engineers literally wrote the book on ScyllaDB.
• We open sourced some of our work, like our media processing library lilliput, or various Elixir utilities like manifold, sorted_set_nif and more.

Candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties). For this role, the hiring manager would like folks to be in the office 1 day a week. Relocation assistance may be available.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $400,000 to $500,000 + 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.

As a Senior Engineer on the Safety Experience team, you'll lead the charge in making Discord's platform safer for hundreds of millions of users. You'll design, build, and maintain product features and systems that prevent harmful activities while ensuring regulatory compliance. Keeping users safe is essential for Discord's growth, making your team's work critical. This role reports to the Engineering Manager of Safety Experience.

What you'll be doing:

• Lead development of highly‑visible, user‑facing products that protect Discord's users.
• Design, build, and deploy robust production APIs, backend services, and data pipelines to launch safety features at scale.
• Collaborate cross‑functionally with Product, Design, Policy, Data Science, ML, Legal, and T&S Operations to create solutions that are both impactful and lovable.
• Iterate on in-house tooling to supercharge our T&S workflows.
• Respond rapidly to the ever‑evolving abuse and compliance landscape.

What you should have:

• 5+ years experience writing Python and utilizing back-end API frameworks (Flask, Django).
• 5+ years experience developing front-end interfaces with JavaScript (React, TypeScript) for both web and mobile platforms.
• Familiarity with databases such as Cassandra, Postgres, and ScyllaDB.
• Demonstrated success leading end‑to‑end delivery of complex projects: breaking down ambiguity, coordinating rollouts, and aligning stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot, debug, and test complex systems in a live, production environment.
• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work well with cross-functional partners, designers, and other engineers.
• Experience using metrics and dashboards to make data-driven decisions and develop insightful reports.
• Experience utilizing AI tools like Claude Code and Cursor to supercharge dev workflows

Bonus Points

• Experience in the Safety or Anti‑Abuse domain.
• Experience analyzing and visualizing data using Datadog or Mode.
• Familiarity with real‑time streaming systems like Kafka or Pub-Sub.
• Ability to contribute to offline analytics jobs and processes.
• Experience building and operating mobile‑client features on iOS and Android.
• Exposure to lower‑level languages such as Go, Rust, and Elixir.
• A strong moral compass that drives you to protect users and do the right thing.

Candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties). Relocation assistance may be available.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $196,000 to $220,500 + 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.

We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Safety Processing team. This team plays a crucial role in ensuring trust and safety across Discord, processing signals from user reports and automated systems to identify and remove harmful or illegal content from our platform. You’ll lead backend projects, provide architectural guidance, and help build scalable systems that protect our users. Your work will directly impact the safety of our platform and help make Discord a place where everyone can belong. To learn more about Discord Engineering, take a look at our engineering blog.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Lead, design, and build scalable backend systems for processing safety-related signals, primarily using Python
• Guide and mentor the team through architectural and system design challenges, ensuring long-term scalability as Discord continues to grow
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build tools for content moderation and related compliance efforts. This includes in house solutions and vendors
• Implement and enhance ML/AI models and automation to improve efficiency in content moderation and decision-making processes
• Build solutions with an adversarial mindset, anticipating and addressing safety challenges such as malicious behavior and illegal content on the platform
• Drive workstreams and provide leadership to the team, mobilizing others to accomplish projects and deliver impactful outcomes

What We Look For:

• Python Expertise: Extensive experience developing and maintaining backend systems using Python
• Architectural Leadership: Strong system design and architecture skills with the ability to build scalable, reliable systems for content moderation with an emphasis on large scale projects, programs, or initiatives measured in quarters or years
• Leadership in Execution: Ability to define workstreams, lead projects, and guide other engineers through implementation
• Adversarial Mindset: Experience in a domain that required an adversarial mindset such as trust, safety, security, or privacy
• On-Call Experience: Experience being in a 24/7 on-call rotation for production systems

Bonus Points:

• Experience working with ML/AI models in content moderation
• Familiarity with Typescript/Javascript/React and frontend technologies
• Familiarity with Rust
• Previous experience at companies with a strong focus on safety, security, or trust & safety

Candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties). Relocation assistance may be available.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $248,000 to $310,000 + 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.

Our Platform Infrastructure teams are responsible for building and maintaining the critical systems that power Discord's core services. These systems handle hundreds of thousands of requests per second, process tens of billions of transactions daily, and enable millions of users to connect seamlessly. Through developing and operating foundational platform components, our work allows internal developers to rapidly and safely deliver new features to production while ensuring Discord remains reliable, efficient, and scalable.

As a Senior Software Engineer on these teams, you will continuously improve our codebase, processes, and infrastructure - affecting nearly every interaction users have on Discord!

What You'll Be Doing:

• Ensure the reliable and efficient operation of critical systems that serve millions of users daily.
• Design, develop, and scale distributed systems from the ground up.
• Write code and manage infrastructure to support high-performance services.
• Enable dozens of teams to deploy code to production quickly and safely.
• Use and enhance observability tools to troubleshoot complex issues.
• Instrument services to establish robust data collection and monitoring pipelines.
• Coach and mentor other engineers, enabling their development.
• Become a vital part of a small team of talented engineers passionate about keeping Discord running smoothly.

What you have:

• 5+ years of experience designing and developing backend systems.
• Experience scaling distributed systems.
• Experience operating complex services in a production environment.
• Familiarity with open source software, and the ability to dig into a library's source code to find the answer you're looking for.
• Confidence in making tradeoffs when leading projects to ensure constant progress.

Bonus Points:

• Experience with Python or Rust.
• Experience deploying and managing containerized applications with Kubernetes.
• Experience with Google Pub/Sub or other message queue systems.
• A deep understanding of Python runtime internals or the gevent library.
• Experience utilizing AI tools like Claude Code and Cursor to supercharge dev workflows
• You have built or contributed to open source projects.
• You are a Discord power user and have built bots or apps interacting with our platform.

Candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties). Relocation assistance may be available.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $196,000 to $220,500 + 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.