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Salary Range
$153,000 - $207,000 /year
This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.
About the Role
We are looking for a Principal Engineer to join our Infrastructure organization at Discord. This role involves shaping our technical vision and ensuring our systems remain reliable and scalable for millions of users.
Key Responsibilities
- →Lead Discord's most critical infrastructure initiatives
- →Define and drive the technical vision and multi-year roadmap for Infrastructure
- →Partner with leadership across the company to ensure infrastructure capabilities enable product innovation
- →Design systems that balance reliability, cost-efficiency, and scalability
- →Mentor and grow senior engineers across multiple teams
- →Represent Discord's engineering culture externally through blog posts, conference talks, and open source contributions
Requirements
- ✓10+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems
- ✓Experience architecting complex infrastructure serving hundreds of millions of users with strict uptime requirements
- ✓Deep expertise in backend systems, databases, and the operational realities of running systems at scale
- ✓Ability to navigate significant ambiguity and make sound technical decisions
- ✓Experience influencing technical direction across many teams without direct authority
- ✓Strong communication skills to articulate complex technical concepts
- ✓A passion for mentorship and raising the capabilities of engineers
- ✓Things that might interest you:
- ✓Our languages: Rust, Elixir, and Python
- ✓Our databases: ScyllaDB, Postgres and Elasticsearch
- ✓Our systems are deployed in Google Cloud
- ✓Our infrastructure teams shared many blog posts over the years.
