Senior Software Engineer- Database Infrastructure

Discord•San Francisco, CA

2d•$196,000 - $220,500•Onsite

About The Position

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

Requirements

4+ years of experience with building distributed systems and datastore infrastructure
Experience with highly-available and distributed databases: e.g. ScyllaDB, Cassandra, BigTable, DynamoDB, CockroachDB, Postgres w/HA, etc.
Proficiency with at least one statically-typed programming language: e.g. Rust, Go, Java, C, C++
Strong operating systems, distributed systems and concurrency control fundamentals
Familiarity with Linux internals
Comfortable working in fast paced environments.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Cassandra or Scylla
Experience with Rust
Knowledge of DevOps tools like Salt, Terraform or Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

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.