The Infrastructure department powers Discord’s building blocks, including our textual chat platform, audio and video channels, internal tooling, protection against spam and abuse and much more. While being a relatively small group of engineers, the Infrastructure department works on systems of considerable scale. Discord has more than 100M monthly active users and facilitates 4 billion minutes of audio conversations on a daily basis.
As an infrastructure engineer, your work will have an immense impact on our company’s success and ability to grow, but will also directly influence how communities around the world communicate!
What you'll be doing
- Build the foundation of Discord’s technology.
- Collaborate with product teams to add new features.
- Ensure our systems are fast and reliable.
- Exercise First Principles Thinking to always deliver what matters most to our users.
- Mentor and help grow junior engineers.
- Work with a talented team of engineers who have built one of the largest communication platforms in the world.
What you should have
- 4+ years of experience writing and designing backend systems or building the tools that move these systems forward.
- Experience solving complex distributed system problems.
- Knowledge of monitoring and alerting best practices.
- Familiarity with open source software, and a willingness to dig into the source code of a library to find the answer you’re looking for.
- Comfortable working in fast paced environments.
Bonus Points
- Experience with Rust or Elixir.
- Experience working with NoSQL databases (Cassandra, Scylla etc.) storing 100s of billions of data points.
- Experience working with systems deployed in a cloud environment (GCP, AWS, etc.)
- Knowledge of DevOps tools like Salt, Terraform or Kubernetes.
- You have built or contributed to open source projects.
RustとElixir, そしてCassandraやScyllaといったNoSQLデータベースの経験が求められているのが特徴的
The Storage Infrastructure team builds and operates large-scale database systems that serve Discord's more than 150M monthly active users. We provide reliable and performant data storage services storing 100s of billions of data points. We're a small team who's work has a huge impact on our company's success and ability to grow. If that sounds exciting to you, read on!
What you'll be doing
- Build reliable and performant transactional data storage systems that are friendly to operate.
- Collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to develop storage services that facilitate their success.
- Help influence our storage infrastructure roadmap
- Exercise First Principles Thinking to always deliver what matters most to our users.
- Mentor and help grow junior engineers.
- Work with a talented team of engineers who have built one of the largest communication platforms in the world.
What you should have
- 4+ years of experience building distributed systems and infrastructure
- Experience with distributed databases (Cassandra, Scylla, DynamoDB, BigTable, etc.)
- Familiarity with Linux internals
- Experience solving complex distributed system problems. Knowledge of monitoring and alerting best practices.
- Comfortable working in fast paced environments.
Bonus Points
- Experience with Rust.
- Experience working with systems deployed in a cloud environment (GCP, AWS, etc.)
- Knowledge of DevOps tools like Salt, Terraform or Kubernetes.
こちらもRustの経験が求められている。 独自ストレージシステムの開発と運用を行うポジション。 面白そうではあるが、ストレージエンジンに求められる信頼性を担保するためには、かなりの経験が求められるだろう。