Discord is hiring a technical, hands-on, empathetic staff software engineer to help define and deliver our Developer Platforms mission: build platform solutions to accelerate every Engineer at our company. With your expertise and passion for delivering high quality products, you'll equip our engineering organization with tools to move quickly and deliver features that bring millions of people together.

As the staff engineer of the Developer Platforms team, you're responsible for setting the direction of the team's work to ensure that it's forward-looking while staying true to the ideal of a friction-free developer experience. You'll have outsized impact across nearly every Engineering team, and you'll help us articulate the golden path from development, through staging, and on into production. You'll be reporting to the Engineering Manager for Platform Security and Platform Engineering, ensuring we build scalable, secure-by-default, and delightful development platform.

What you'll doYou'll work with customer engineers to ship a technical roadmap for Discord's development platformsYou'll collaborate with our Client Developer Platform team and our Platform-as-a-Service team for a cohesive developer experience and a crisp path to productionYou'll improve our remote cloud development environment (we use Coder, and you can read more about it here: )You'll provide fast and stable builds across our entire tech stack using tools like Bazel, Docker, Nix, and K8sYou'll build the core libraries and CLI frameworks that provide a unified tooling ecosystemYou'll refine our existing build, test, and deploy tools or building them from the ground upWhat you should have7+ years of experience in software development with a focus on tooling, infrastructure, and automationLed a reasonably sized project with a group of 4+ engineersExpertise and empathy when troubleshooting issues with customer engineering teamsExperience developing in cloud-based environments (we use Google Cloud)Experience with infrastructure-as-code tooling (we use Terraform)Experience with CI, build, and deployment technologies like Buildkite, Docker, Kubernetes, Bazel, and TerraformBroad experience across many domains and technologies and comfort in diving into something newBonus PointsYou've built open source software integrated by other developersYou obsess over and nerd out over your own development workflow (keyboards, dotfiles, editors, window managers, and the like)You've used nix or other declarative build systems like itYou've worked on developer tooling across MacOS, Windows, and LinuxYou've worked with a security engineering team to threat model your workThe US base salary range for this full-time position is $223,000 to $245,500 + 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.UsDiscord is a voice, video and text app that helps friends come together to hang out, have fun, and play games. With over 150 million monthly users, Discord has grown to become one of the most popular communications services in the world.

Discord offers a premium subscription called Nitro that gives users special perks like higher quality streams and fun customizations.We're working toward an inclusive world where no one feels like an outsider, where genuine human connection is a click, text chat, or voice call away. A place where everyone can find belonging. Challenging? Heck yes.

Rewarding? Double heck yes. It's a mission that gives us the chance to positively impact millions of people all over the world. So if this strikes a chord with you, come build belonging with us!.