Discord's mission is to create a space where everyone can find belonging by enabling meaningful connections through voice, video, and text.

We're looking for a mission-driven Software Engineer to join our Core Product team. This team is responsible for shaping the heart of the Discord experience: how people chat, hang out, and express themselves every day.

As part of Core Product, you'll work on some of Discord's most heavily used surfaces, partnering closely with designers and product managers to take features from concept to launch. You'll build polished, high-impact experiences used by millions of people every day. This role is ideal for engineers who combine strong technical execution with product intuition—people who care deeply about user experience and aren't afraid to jump into unfamiliar parts of the stack to make something better.

What You'll Be Doing

• Building delightful products with a very high bar for quality, performance, and a focus on impact
• Working with Product, Design, Data Science, UX Research, and Marketing to shape the team's vision and roadmap
• Helping find the right solutions that balance delight, speed of delivery and impact by collaborating with design and product partners
• Taking ownership of projects end-to-end, from initial design through post-launch, with support from senior teammates
• Actively participating in team rituals including planning, code review, on-call, and retrospectives

What you should have

• You have 3+ years of experience as a Software Engineer
• You have specialized in building consumer-facing products on web and mobile platforms
• You have developed domain expertise in either web or mobile front-end (or both)
• You are eager to learn new languages and frameworks, and are comfortable working across the full stack when needed
• You have worked in a product team with clear metrics goals and had a measurable positive impact on customers
• You have a strong product sense and take pride in sweating the details of great UX

Bonus Points

• You are a Discord user, and understand the core features and flow of Discord communications
• You've worked on React Native products

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.

The Consumer Revenue org sits at the center of how we build a sustainable business around that community. We're looking for a Staff Engineer to join teams working across premium experiences and core user identity, shaping the technical strategy that ties it all together. You'll work across surfaces like Nitro, Shop, Server Boosting, and User Identity to build a premium Discord that delivers real value to subscribers without compromising the core experience for our free users.

In this full-stack product engineering role, you'll collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Data Science, Design, Marketing, and other functions to create best-in-class consumer experiences. Your work will cover the full breadth of the technical stack, from backend data modeling, through business logic in APIs, to polished, user-facing interfaces. You’ll be supported by infrastructure, platform, and product teams on your mission to build the best premium Discord

Check out some of our recent launches on Nitro, Shop, Server Boosting, User Identity, and more. To learn more about Discord Engineering, take a look at our engineering blog!

What You'll Be Doing

• Accelerate growth of existing revenue streams while laying the foundation for new monetization opportunities across surfaces like Nitro, Shop, Boosting, and User Identity.
• Own complex initiatives end to end by partnering with Product to refine requirements, create technical specs, and work closely with Design to execute and deliver best-in-class user experiences.
• Collaborate with Staff Engineers and partners across the organization to drive technical alignment across systems, products, and long-term vision.
• Advise leadership on critical technical considerations tied to engineering excellence and high-impact initiatives, and partner on strategic planning to improve how we build and operate.
• Lead a full-stack engineering work across Web, Android, and iOS, setting the technical bar for your team and helping them achieve it.
• Rapidly prototype new features and synthesize insights through experimentation, thriving in ambiguous problem spaces where the right path isn't always obvious.

What you should have

• 8+ years of software engineering experience. You have a track record of leading large initiatives from inception to launch that have had meaningful impact beyond your immediate team.
• Full-stack proficiency. You are an expert in React/React Native with a solid grasp of Python backend development. We work primarily in the web (React, TypeScript), mobile (React Native, with a small amount of Kotlin, Objective-C, and Swift), and backend (Python).
• Product sense. You maintain a high degree of empathy for your internal and external users, and seek feedback from them about your work. You have an eye for what changes can bring a product from good to great.
• Technical leadership. You help teams move with clarity and purpose, translating ambiguous goals into executable roadmaps and creating the conditions for engineers around you to do their best work.
• Ownership mentality. You thrive with autonomy, take initiative to drive projects forward, and are comfortable with ambiguity.
• Holistic approach to problem solving. You solve from first principles rather than reaching for the nearest solution. You think about the full system, learn from mistakes, and bring the team along with you.
• Performance-focused mindset. You have a solid understanding of React performance and client-server performance optimization, and a commitment to maintaining high-performance standards.
• Growth mindset. You view challenges and mistakes as learning opportunities while building upon your successes. You push yourself and those around you to continuously improve.

Bonus points:

• Growth and monetization experience. You have worked on teams focused on revenue generation, product monetization, or user engagement systems, with a history of attracting new users, driving engagement, sustaining long-term retention, and optimizing monetization outcomes.
• Experimentation and data driven decision making. You have a strong track record of driving measurable impact through structured experimentation and letting data guide your conclusions.
• Optimization at scale. You have experience identifying and solving bottlenecks in consumer-facing applications with large, active user bases.
• Passion for Discord. You use the platform, care about the community, and are motivated by the idea of making Discord better for everyone on it.

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

Come build the future of Discord’s business with us! We are looking for impact-focused full-stack engineers to join our world-class Revenue group as we accelerate Discord’s growth through the creation of compelling paid products. These products allow us to grow our business while keeping Discord’s core functionality free, and without selling user data. You will be reporting to the Engineering Manager of Financial Platform. To learn more about Discord Engineering, take a look at our engineering blog!

What you'll be doing:

• Work with your squad to build the financial systems and integrations that underpin Discord’s existing business lines, and enable new revenue streams across Android, iOS, and Web
• Run revenue operations side by side with our finance and accounting teams
• Collaborate with business development to forge strategic partnerships
• Partner with CX, Data Science, and feature teams across the company to evolve Discord’s payments and payouts platforms
• Improve reliability, observability, and stability of Discord’s billing system

What you should have:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience. Deep expertise in backend development (Python); working knowledge of frontend technologies (React, TypeScript) to contribute across the full stack when needed.
• You have a growth mindset. You view challenges and mistakes as learning opportunities while building upon your successes. You push yourself and those around you to continuously improve.
• A focus on impact. You have a sharp eye for what changes can bring a product from good to great. You collaborate closely with product managers, designers, analysts, and other engineers to define great solutions to business problems.
• A sense of ownership. You believe in solving a problem completely rather than simply shipping a solution. You operate autonomously and follow through on your commitments.

Bonus Points

• Direct experience working on revenue/monetization teams
• Knowledge of accounting, revenue operations, or payments
• A love of solving puzzles and using data to answer questions

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 $196k to $220k + 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 highly technical, hands-on, and empathetic Engineering Manager to lead one of our full stack squads in our Revenue organization. This is a high-impact role where you’ll be directly responsible for one of Discord’s major business lines, delivering premium experiences that create real value for users while driving company revenue.

You’ll partner closely with Product to define and execute on long-term strategy, leading a full-stack team of engineers working across web, Android, and iOS. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to prioritize the most impactful work, guide the technical direction of the team, and jump into the code when needed. Whether you bring a strong background in growth or are an exceptional engineering leader excited about solving user-facing, high-leverage problems, this is a unique opportunity to shape Discord’s future.

What you'll do

• Collaborate closely with your cross-functional team (Product, Design, Data Science, Marketing, 3P Partnerships and UX Research) to drive your team’s vision and roadmap.
• Lead a team of engaged full stack engineers by hiring, coaching, and instilling best practices.
• Use your technical expertise to make appropriate tradeoffs and ensure your team is designing scalable technical solutions and delivering high-quality products. 
• Instill a culture that both drives impactful results and delights the end user.
• Set a strong pace for the team by fostering a culture of 80/20 thinking, shipping and iterating quickly, and making timely decisions even in ambiguous problem spaces.
• Make sound first-principle decisions around resourcing and communicating the rationale clearly to partners and team members.
• Partner with your org leader on strategic planning and to improve the Engineering organization and uphold our workplace philosophy.

What you should have

• You have 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer
• You have 2+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager
• You collaborate closely with product managers, designers, data scientists, and other engineers to define great solutions to business problems
• You take pride in delivering a delightful experience for end users, stakeholders and anyone you work with
• You are motivated to help your team members succeed and have experience growing engineers
• Code doesn't scare you - you are still an engineer even if you don't do it all the time
• You embrace "all problems are my problem." You help your team and cross-functional partners overcome obstacles and resolve blockers so the work keeps moving.

Bonus Points 

• You understand the gaming industry
• You have experience working on teams focused on growth, particularly in revenue generation, e-commerce or product monetization
• Strong track record of driving measurable impact through experimentation and data driven decision making
• Experience with the full lifecycle of consumer products: attracting new users, driving engagement, sustaining retention, and optimizing monetization outcomes
• You are a Discord user, and understand the core features and flow of Discord communications

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 $248k to $278k + 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 talented Senior Software Engineers to join our Consumer Revenue squads, the teams at the heart of premium experiences at Discord. You’ll be building out a premium Discord for millions of subscribers, focusing on surfaces such as Nitro, shop, boosting, user identity, and more. Your work will be vital in delivering a high-value premium experience, without compromising the core experience for our free users. You’ll be a key driver in generating the revenue that fuels Discord’s mission.

In this product engineering role, you'll collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Data Science, Design, Marketing, and other functions to create best-in-class consumer experiences. Your work will cover the full breadth of the technical stack, from backend data modeling, through business logic in APIs, to polished, user-facing interfaces. You’ll be supported by infrastructure, platform, and product teams on your mission to build the best premium Discord.

Check out some of our recent launches on Nitro, shop, boosting, user identity, and more. To learn more about Discord Engineering, take a look at our engineering blog!

What You'll Be Doing

• Build and improve premium Discord experiences such as Nitro, shop, boosting, user identity, and more.
• Own projects end to end by partnering with Product to refine requirements, create technical specs, and work closely with Design to execute and deliver best-in-class user experiences.
• Work with a team of full-stack engineers to ship new features across Web, Android, and iOS.
• Lead complex initiatives from conception to completion, thriving in ambiguous environments.
• Rapidly prototype new features and synthesize insights through experimentation.

What you should have

• 5+ years of software engineering experience. You’re a key technical contributor to your team and have led sizable projects which have had a big impact on your team’s roadmap.
• Full-stack proficiency. You are an expert in React/React Native with a solid grasp of Python backend development. We work primarily in the web (React, TypeScript), mobile (React Native, with a small amount of Kotlin, Objective-C, and Swift), and backend (Python).
• Product sense. You maintain a high degree of empathy for your internal and external users, and seek feedback from them about your work. You have an eye for what changes can bring a product from good to great.
• Ownership mentality. You thrive with autonomy, take initiative to drive projects forward, and are comfortable with ambiguity.
• Pragmatic approach. You find incremental approaches to solving complex problems, enjoy rapidly prototyping solutions, value your autonomy and operate with high integrity.
• Performance-focused mindset. You have a solid understanding of React performance and client-server performance optimization, and a commitment to maintaining high-performance standards.
• Growth mindset. You view challenges and mistakes as learning opportunities while building upon your successes. You push yourself and those around you to continuously improve.

Bonus Points

• Experience working on teams focused on growth, particularly in revenue generation, product monetization, or user engagement systems
• Strong track record of driving measurable impact through experimentation and data-driven decision making
• Demonstrated success in attracting new users, driving engagement, sustaining long-term retention, and optimizing consumer-facing features
• Experience with performance optimization at scale, particularly for consumer-facing applications
• Interest or passion for the Discord platform

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

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.

Join our Core Product Engagement team to shape the future of Discord and help build the key features that make Discord delightful and help people connect every day with their friends. We’re looking for someone who is highly driven, goal oriented, and growth minded to lead a team of full stack engineers. In this role you’ll be collaborating closely with your product, design and data partners. You’ll also have the opportunity to wear many hats – writing code, pulling data, and driving products forward.

We’re a small and mighty team where you’ll have serious ownership of the core experiences Discord offers. This specific team helps improve the core experience and build the foundations that help every Discord user be successful and connect with their friends and community!

What you'll be doing

• Collaborate with Product, Design, Data Science, UX Research, and Marketing to drive your team’s vision and roadmap
• Make sound first-principle decisions around resourcing, and making the rationale clear to partners and team members
• Partner with your org leader on strategic planning and to improve the Engineering organization and uphold our workplace philosophy
• Helping drive product decisions with our goals in mind and holding a high bar for the quality of our features
• Use your technical expertise to move fast, make tradeoffs, and ensure your team delivers with high quality

What you should have

• You are a Discord user, and understand the core features and flow of Discord
• You have 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, working across the stack (mobile, web, backend) building user experiences
• You have 2+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager, leading teams of 5 or more engineers building user facing products
• You have a product sense and take pride in understanding your customers
• You have worked in a product team with clear metrics goals
• You are very goal oriented and always strive to win
• You are motivated to help your team members succeed and have experience growing engineers
• You are excited to get hands-on – we’re looking for someone to manage primarily but our leaders should feel very comfortable jumping into code to understand our product better, brainstorming technical solutions, and making changes directly.

Bonus Points

• You have worked on a social or messaging consumer product
• You have experience with React Native

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 a data-driven full stack Senior Software Engineer to join the Growth team at Discord. Our team is responsible for how Discord shows up across the web- building the systems that help new users discover and understand Discord before they ever sign up. You'll work across the stack to improve our SEO capabilities, from edge compute solutions that serve millions of requests to backend systems that power our web presence. This is a high-impact role where you'll directly influence how Discord acquires and onboards new users at scale. This person will report to the Senior Engineering Manager for Growth.

What You'll Be Doing

• Build and optimize web experiences that improve Discord's discoverability and search engine presence
• Develop edge compute solutions to serve dynamic, SEO-friendly content at scale
• Work across the full stack, with a focus on frontend technologies (TypeScript, React) while contributing to our backend systems (Python)
• Design and run experiments to measure the impact of SEO improvements on user acquisition
• Partner with Product, Design, and Data Science to identify high-impact opportunities and iterate quickly
• Maintain performance and reliability standards for user-facing web properties

What you should have

• 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer
• Experience building SEO solutions or working on growth teams focused on acquisition
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript and React, with experience building performant web applications
• Familiarity with edge compute platforms (Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge Functions, or similar)
• Working knowledge of Python and backend web frameworks like Flask
• A data-driven approach to decision making, with experience designing and interpreting A/B tests
• Curiosity about how search engines and LLMs work and a desire to stay current on SEO & GEO best practices

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $196,000 to $220,000 + 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 Design Systems team is a cross-functional team that ensures design quality across all facets of UI, content, and graphics. We develop the core primitives and standards that engineers and designers use to build Discord’s products. Designers and engineers on this team collaborate closely to accelerate product feature teams’ ability to ship new features with UI that are accessible, consistent, and high quality. This team also sets the standard for accessibility on Discord, and supports other engineering teams in achieving it. As such, the Design Systems team plays a critical role enabling Discord to achieve its core mission: creating a space for everyone to find belonging.

What You'll Be Doing

• Working closely with our engineers and designers to build and maintain our design system, Mana, (design tokens, components, and other code patterns) and improve it over time.
• Authoring beautiful, accessible components that work across all our supported platforms (iOS, Android, desktop, and web).
• Building internal tools like Figma plugins, codemods, and lint rules to empower all of our engineers and designers to use the design system to the fullest extent.
• Providing guidance to teams on the best way to use design systems components and tools across their projects through pairing and documentation.
• Create interactive prototypes to communicate your work. Use user research and data to inform your reasoning
• Inspire the entire team and our internal partners by bringing new ideas to the table and implementing them as next-generation product primitives.
• Working with our Staff+ level engineers to grow your skills and aptitudes.
• Reviewing code and designs

What you should have

• 5+ years of work experience as a software engineer building, shipping, and iterating on product features or internal tools.
• 1+ years experience working on a design system.
• Expertise with web (React, TypeScript) or mobile (React Native, Swift, Objective-C, Kotlin) client-focused development. We're a cross-platform team and believe that engineers should be empowered to work across a variety of tech stacks. We'll support you in learning the stacks you don't know!
• A deep understanding of accessibility and its application in creating robust user interfaces.
• Strong, clear written communication skills and a healthy appreciation for good documentation.
• Experience working on cross-functional teams with designers or product managers.
• Willingness and excitement to learn new technical skills and expand your toolkit.
• A consistent track record of delivering multi-milestone projects on time and at a high level.
• Experience safely migrating existing front-end codebases to new technical patterns at scale.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $196,000 - $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 are looking for a highly technical, creative, hands-on, and impact-focused Senior Software Engineer to join our growing Ads team.

Our team is revolutionizing the way users interact with our platform through innovative ad formats (including Quests). We are driven by a passion for delivering exceptional user experiences while scaling our platform to new heights. These products enable us to generate revenue by building a win-win-win suite of distribution tools for game developers, players, and Discord. Join us in shaping the future of digital advertising and marketplace interactions!

To learn more about Discord Engineering, take a look at our engineering blog!

What you'll be doing

• Design, build and maintain new Ads products from the backend to frontend. Collaborate with both engineers on and off the team - from Revenue Infrastructure, to Core Tech, to Machine Learning, to Data Science.
• Be a strategic partner with engineering, product, and cross functional leadership in designing, developing and scaling digital advertising features that drive revenue growth and enhance user engagement.
• Architect simple and maintainable systems to enable us to launch quickly and iterate while sustaining a high product and technical quality bar.
• Model strong ownership by acting autonomously when possible and looping in others to build confidence on critical questions. Introduce coding and operational best practices to the team; always be learning & teaching.
• Own projects end to end — you’ll be responsible for working with Product and other stakeholders to refine requirements, creating technical designs and specs, implementing changes, and seeing projects through to launch and maintenance.

What you should have

• A focus on impact. You have a sharp eye for what changes can bring a product from good to great. You collaborate closely with product managers, designers, analysts, and other engineers to define great solutions to business problems.
• A sense of ownership. You believe in solving a problem completely rather than simply shipping a solution. You operate autonomously and follow through on your commitments.
• A growth mindset. You view mistakes as learning opportunities and build upon your successes. You challenge yourself and those around you to continuously improve.
• A love of mentorship. Helping fellow engineers, providing feedback and guidance on system architecture, API design, data modeling, and tradeoffs.
• 4+ years of experience

Bonus Points

• Expertise with Typescript, React, React Native, and Python
• Familiarity with experimentation and analysis
• Contributions to open-source projects
• Interest or passion for the Discord 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.