Discord

Director of Engineering, Persistence

Discord

Remote job description

Discord is your place to talk. Whether you're part of a school club, gaming group, worldwide art community, or just a handful of friends that want to spend time together, millions of people use Discord every day to create connections, hang out, and talk.

At the core of every product experience is our data and the systems that manage it at scale. The Persistence Infrastructure teams oversee the reliability, performance, and safety of virtually all data we use to provide Discord. We serve millions of queries per second and store petabytes of data across our systems.

We build modern, Rust-based data services that provide battle-hardened abstractions on top of storage systems like ScyllaDB and PostgreSQL. In addition to structured data systems, we manage our scaled ElasticSearch abstractions that power important product features and storage areas like user attachments and other product features. If it's applying application data to power our product, this team has a hand in it!

We're looking for a Director of Engineering who is passionate about building an organization quickly as we scale around it. You will create a vision, creating a strategy, building a motivated team, systems, and features, ideating creative solutions to large-scale problems, and giving Discord the live data systems to help us succeed for decades to come.

What you'll do

  • Be part of the infrastructure and engineering leadership teams, responsible for defining the future of how we scale as a distributed engineering organization.
  • Lead from the front, prioritize, and lead the larger mission forward by setting long-term strategy and translating vision into results.
  • Work toward excellence as you prioritize between our needs (compliance, durability, cost efficiency) and the needs of our internal customers (features, flexibility, performance.)
  • Structure the organization and improve it for execution, including attracting top-tier talent, nurturing existing talent, and filling out gaps in the existing team quickly to accommodate growth.
  • Lead an organization with user/customer focus, world-class quality, with a focus on solutions, quick and constructive resolutions to conflicts, and a "no barriers" mentality.
  • Use technical judgment to guide project delivery and technology reviews, challenge proposals, and build conviction in solutions.
  • Solve challenges and partner with engineering teams across the company to ensure successful outcomes.

What you have

  • 5+ years engineering experience in high-scale systems, dealing with storage systems.
  • 5+ years management experience including managing distributed teams
  • Experience in an established, large-scale consumer product company/business, and dealing with the tradeoffs of scaled data solutions.
  • Experience with NoSQL solutions and traditional RDBMS.
  • Experience collaboration across teams with complex dependencies and long roadmaps.
  • Experience managing production incidents and communicating with partners, and promoting the health of your teams.
  • Experience shaping technology strategy and implementing upon that vision.
  • Experience with scale with emphasis on Reliability, Efficiency, and Scalability.

Bonus Points

  • A love for helping & empowering others, and growing the people around you.
  • BA/BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or relevant technical experience.
  • Experience working with ScyllaDB (or Cassandra), PostgreSQL, or ElasticSearch.
  • Experience with Google Cloud Platform.

Other Considerations

  • Remote: This role is open to remote candidates, but will travel to our San Francisco HQ at least quarterly.
  • New York City residents only: Minimum salary of $279,000/year + equity and benefits
  • Note: Disclosure as required by NYC Pay Transparency Law
  • Colorado residents only: Minimum salary of $251,000/year + equity and benefits
  • Note: Disclosure as required by by sb19-085(8-5-20).

Benefits and Perks

  • Comprehensive medical insurance including Health, Dental and Vision (plus up to $20,000 for gender affirmation procedures)
  • Mental health resources and quarterly wellness stipends
  • 16+ paid holidays, 4 weeks of PTO + use-what-you-need sick days
  • Paid parental leave (plus fertility, adoption and other family planning benefits)
  • Flexible long-term work options (remote and hybrid)
  • Volunteer time off
  • A diverse slate of Employee Resource Groups
  • Plus commuter contributions and other perks for office-based employees

About Us

Discord is a voice, video and text app that helps friends and communities come together to hang out and explore their interests - from artists and activists, to study groups, sneakerheads, plant parents, and more. With 150 million monthly users across 19 million active communities, called servers, Discord has grown to become one of the most popular communications services in the world. Discord was built without selling ads or user data and instead, offers a premium subscription called Nitro that gives users special perks like higher quality streams and fun customizations.

We're working toward an inclusive world where no one feels like an outsider, where genuine human connection is a click, text chat, or voice call away. A place where everyone can find belonging. Challenging? Heck yes. Rewarding? Double heck yes. It's a mission that gives us the chance to positively impact millions of people all over the world. So if this strikes a chord with you, come build belonging with us!




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Company name: Discord
Remote job title: Director of Engineering, Persistence

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