Senior Software Engineer, Multi Cloud

Discord•San Francisco, CA

21h•Hybrid

About The Position

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. Discord is hiring a technical, hands-on, empathetic senior software engineer to help define and deliver our Platform as a Service (PAAS) mission: build platform solutions to accelerate every Engineer at our company. With your expertise in building and using best-in-class infrastructure tools, you’ll equip our engineering organization with tools to move quickly and deliver features that bring millions of people together. As a senior engineer on the PAAS team, you’ll collaborate with the team to deliver forward-looking, customer-centric tooling. You’ll make sure our solutions are crafted for a friction-free developer experience, have outsized impact across nearly every Engineering team, and help us articulate the golden path from development into production. You’ll be reporting to the Senior Engineering Manager for Platform Engineering, ensuring we build scalable, secure-by-default, and easy-to-use infrastructure tooling.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in software development with a focus on tooling, infrastructure, and automation
Experience working in multi-milestone and even multi-quarter projects
Expertise and empathy when troubleshooting issues with customer engineering teams
Expertise using and building upon the primitives of standard cloud infrastructure tooling like Kubernetes, Docker
Experience developing in cloud-based environments (we use Google Cloud; knowledge of Amazon Web Services and/or Azure also great!)
Experience with infrastructure-as-code tooling (we use Terraform)
Broad experience across many domains and technologies and comfort in diving into something new
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.

Nice To Haves

You have deep experience with CI, build, and deployment technologies like Buildkite, Bazel, and Terraform
You’ve built and deployed your own Kubernetes operator
You have experience with cloud networking tools like istio, envoy, etc
You’re already using Rust regularly
You’ve used Datadog and/or Sentry and are comfortable supporting application observability in those platforms
You’ve built open source software integrated by other developers
You’ve worked with a security engineering team to threat model your work

Responsibilities

You'll work with customer engineering teams to ensure we’re building solutions that developers love using day-in and day-out
You’ll work with the Internal Development Experience (IDX) team to ensure an easy path to go from development through staging into production, and
You’ll work with the Platform Security team in order to secure every path to production
You’ll ship Rust code to YAY, our in-house deployment tooling built around Google Kubernetes Engine and Temporal
You’ll expose the full flexibility of Kubernetes for users while abstracting the complexities away
You’ll build tools to manage the configuration, observability, and scaling characteristics of our infrastructure