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Discord is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Data Platform team. You'll be responsible for building and maintaining data infrastructure that processes petabytes of data across millions of daily active users. The role involves designing and implementing data ingestion, transformation, and serving systems that power decision-making across the platform.
You'll work on distributed systems at massive scale, focusing on reliability, performance, and user privacy. Your code will directly impact how Discord engineers and product teams access and leverage data to improve the gaming community experience. The team is building the next generation of Discord's data platform using modern open-source tools and best practices.
Key responsibilities include:
- Building and maintaining data infrastructure processing petabytes of data
- Writing clean, well-tested code for data ingestion, transformation, and serving systems
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to understand data needs and deliver solutions
- Ensuring data quality, reliability, and performance at scale
- Contributing to architectural decisions for the data platform
This is an individual contributor role for someone passionate about distributed systems, data engineering, and building products that serve millions of users. You should have strong software engineering fundamentals and experience working with large-scale data systems.
