Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform
DiscordCommunication Platform company
San Francisco, United States$196,000 - $245,000Senior
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About the role
TL;DR
Senior Software Engineer to build and maintain large-scale data infrastructure.
- •Discord is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Data Platform team.
- •This role involves building and maintaining data infrastructure at massive scale to support millions of gamers.
- •Key Responsibilities 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, from design through deployment and production support.
- •Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and product teams to deliver solutions.
- •Mentor teammates through code reviews, RFCs, and shared technical knowledge.
- •Requirements 5+ years of software engineering experience with strong programming skills in Python, Java, Rust, Go, or similar.
- •Hands-on experience building or operating data infrastructure like pipelines, streaming systems, orchestration, or data warehousing at scale (BigQuery, Kafka, Spark, Flink, Airflow, Dagster, or similar).
- •Proven track record of delivering complex, multi-phase projects autonomously.
- •Strong collaboration and communication skills.
Required skills
PythonGoRustJavaSQLBigQuerySparkAirflowDagsterDockerKubernetesCI/CDAWSGoogle Cloud
Domain expertise
gaming
Benefits & perks
equity, benefits
Tech stack
PythonJavaRustGoBigQuerySparkAirflowDagsterSQLGitLinuxDockerKubernetesCI/CDAWSGoogle Cloud