Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer, Quests Experience

Discord

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. Every day, hundreds of millions of gamers gather on Discord to hang out, strategize their next raid, celebrate tournament victories, and build communities around the games they love. Behind every voice channel, every streamer Go Live, every Quest completed, there's data, petabytes of it, telling the story of how people connect through gaming. We're looking for someone who gets excited about building data infrastructure at massive scale and cares deeply about the gaming communities we serve. Someone with passion for building lovable products for Discord users and Discord engineers. We’re building the next generation Data Platform that powers decisions for one of the most vibrant platforms in the world. If you're the kind of Software Engineer who lights up when talking about distributed systems, cares deeply about user privacy, grounding decisions in data, and wants your work to directly impact millions of gamers worldwide, we want to talk to you. To learn more about Discord’s Data Platform, read our engineering blog, including how we built our modern data stack leveraging open-source tools! What You'll Be Doing * Build and maintain data infrastructure processing petabytes of data across millions of users * Write clean, well-tested code for data ingestion, transformation, and serving systems * Own projects end-to-end with guidance from senior engineers. From design through deployment and production support * Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and product teams to deliver solutions that power Discord's insights What You Should Have * 3+ years of software engineering experience with strong programming skills in Python, Java, Rust, Go, or similar * Solid CS fundamentals and demonstrated ability to quickly learn new technologies and ramp up on unfamiliar systems * Proven debugging skills and growth mindset. You seek feedback and continuously improve * Strong collaboration skills and ability to clearly explain technical concepts to different audiences Bonus Points * Passion for Discord and gaming * Experience with the data ecosystem: pipelines, ETL, modeling, or warehousing (Kafka, Spark, Flink, Airflow, Dagster, SQL, etc.) * Cloud infrastructure knowledge (AWS, GCP, Azure) or containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) Candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties). Relocation assistance may be available. The US base salary range for this full-time position is $160,000 to $200,000 + 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. Why Discord?  Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests, and helps developers build and grow their businesses. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Your future is just a click away! Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process. We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know. Please see our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy for details regarding Discord’s collection and usage of personal information relating to the application and recruitment process by clicking HERE.

Discord

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. People come to Discord before, during, and after gaming, and we want to make that experience even better. Working directly with our developer partners and communities, we are building brand new ways for users on Discord to connect, engage and have a great time while gaming. We believe that gaming is better when playing with friends, and aim to provide the features and tooling for developers to help us enrich those experiences. This is also reflected in how we work! Our engineering culture values collaboration and building great teams. Come and join us! What You'll Be Doing * Design, build, and maintain features that help users connect and make friends through gaming on our platform, across desktop and mobile. * Engage with developers, game studios and other partners to find opportunities and address challenges towards providing a more rich experience for players while gaming and engaging with online communities. * Collaborate with Engineers, Designers, Product Owners, and Data Scientists to build engaging, fun, and trusted experiences, while experimenting and iterating on ideas that enhance user interactions. * Partner with our Content, Marketing and ML teams to improve ranking and discovery systems, enabling users to find meaningful connections and relevant content. * Build innovative features that help users discover new friendships and deepen existing ones, creating a trusted and welcoming environment. What you should have * You have 5+ years of experience as a software engineer. * You have experience with React/TS, Python or other modern programming languages. * You have a track-record of shipping incremental + delightful features that improve the overall user experience. * You are comfortable switching between different technical stacks and learning new ones. * You enjoy collaborating with product, design and other stakeholders. We don’t operate in silos, and you’ll be working closely with cross-functional peers. You should be able to express opinions and stay aligned. * You take a holistic approach to problem solving. You believe in solving a problem from first principles rather than simply shipping a solution. You learn from your mistakes and work through obstacles with the rest of the team. * You have experience leading projects, gathering requirements, supporting partners and mentoring others. You believe in ‘lead by example’ with regards to ownership, autonomy, quality and impact, and no problem is “not my problem”. * You are a Discord user and want to make the product better! Bonus Points * Experience working on a mobile native stack (iOS / Obj-C / Swift), Android (Java, Kotlin) * Experience working on developer platform or tooling The US base salary range for this full-time position is $196,000 to $220,500 + 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. Why Discord?  Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests, and helps developers build and grow their businesses. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Your future is just a click away! Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process. We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know. Please see our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy for details regarding Discord’s collection and usage of personal information relating to the application and recruitment process by clicking HERE.

Discord

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. Discord launched its Social Commerce team in August 2025 and by the end of the year, we shipped an MVP which was extremely successful. In 2026 we’ve been scaling to more games, adding more features, and extending capabilities. Discord Social Commerce lets players find, buy, and gift in-game digital goods from chat, friends' Wishlists, within official game communities on Discord. The idea is to bring commerce natively into the social spaces where players already hang out, rather than routing them to external storefronts. How its done? Developers integrate through the Discord Social SDK, which includes social layer integration and account linking capabilities. Once connected, players can browse and buy brand-specific gaming skins, costumes, emotes, emojis and more, with the option to gift each other items via Discord DMs, or purchase items in-game through Discord's account-linking system. What You’ll Be Doing * Building cross-platform purchase flows, social gifting experiences, and commerce surfaces that meet users where they already are — in voice, in chat, on mobile. * Collaborating with the other engineers on your team to write, review, and ship elegant and scalable code. You take pride in the fact that your code will be used by millions and millions of people! * Leading projects through the whole life cycle: scoping, designing, building, shipping, and iterating based on experiment results. * Working directly with game studio partners to understand their needs, answer technical questions, and improve the tools we build for them. * Collaborating closely with product, design, and game developers to cut through ambiguity on a product where the playbook is still being written. * Working with product managers, designers, and partner managers to cut through ambiguity and find the way forward. * Using your attention to detail to continually raise the quality bar of the software we write. What you should have: * 5+ years experience as a software engineer. * Expertise with at least a couple parts of our tech stack: Python, Typescript/React, Elixir, Rust being the main areas. You are comfortable switching across stacks or learning new ones. * You have a sense for product and design. We don’t operate in silos, and you’ll be collaborating closely with cross-functional peers. You should be able to express opinions and collaborate to make something great. * Comfort with ambiguity and experimentation. This team ships A/B tests, reads results, and changes direction. You should be someone who thrives in that environment rather than waiting for a fully-baked spec. * You actively leverage AI coding tools to accelerate your productivity. [Optional] Bonus Points * Experience with game development. * Experience with mobile development. * Experience leveraging a cloud platform (GCP, Amazon, or Azure) to serve as the backend infrastructure for a product. The US base salary range for this full-time position is $196,000 to $220,500 + 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. Why Discord?  Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests, and helps developers build and grow their businesses. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Your future is just a click away! Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process. We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know. Please see our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy for details regarding Discord’s collection and usage of personal information relating to the application and recruitment process by clicking HERE.