Discord is about giving people the power to create space to find belonging in their lives. We want to make it easier for you to talk regularly with the people you care about. We want you to build genuine relationships with your friends and communities close to home or around the world. Original, reliable, playful, and relatable. These are the values that connect our users and our employees at Discord. 

The Persistence Infrastructure team develops and operates Discord’s real-time datastore systems that serve the data of Discord's 150M+ monthly active users—including over a trillion messages! We work across multiple systems 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 posts about our work:

• How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages
• How Discord Supercharges Network Disks for Extreme Low-Latency

What you'll do

• Building and operating large-scale, reliable and performant systems with Rust, ScyllaDB, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, and Linux.
• Collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to develop primitives that provide compounding leverage for Discord engineering by reliably storing and serving user data while protecting the safety of our user data.
• 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.

What you should have

• 2+ years of experience building backend systems and infrastructure
• Proficiency with at least one statically-typed programming language: e.g. Rust, Go, Java, C, C++
• Experience with distributed and high-availability databases: e.g. ScyllaDB, Cassandra, BigTable, DynamoDB, Postgres w/HA, etc.
• Knowledge of operating systems, distributed systems and concurrency control
• Comfortable working in fast paced environments.

Bonus Points

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

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The US base salary range for this full-time position is $159,000 to $175,000 + 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.