Senior Software Engineer- Database Infrastructure

Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does: play video games. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games. 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 You will: 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. You have: 4+ years of ex...