Lead Discord's most critical infrastructure initiatives.
Define and drive the infra roadmap and architectural principles.
Partner with leadership to enable product innovation.
Design systems balancing reliability, cost, and scalability.
Mentor senior engineers across teams and raise the bar.
Represent Discord's engineering culture through blogs, conference talks, and open source contributions.

🎯 Requirements

10+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
Architecting infra for hundreds of millions with uptime needs.
Deep expertise in backend systems, databases, and scale ops.
Navigate ambiguity and make durable technical decisions.
Influence technical direction across teams without direct authority.
Strong communication to articulate complex concepts and align teams.

🎁 Benefits

Relocation assistance may be available.
Office in SF 1 day per week.

🚚 Relocation support

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