Discord

Senior Software Engineer, Ads

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Base Salary

$196k - $221k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain new Ads products and infrastructure across backend and frontend systems.
  • Partner with engineering, product, and cross-functional leadership to design, develop, and scale digital advertising features.
  • Architect simple, maintainable systems that support rapid launches and iteration while maintaining technical quality.
  • Promote coding and operational best practices and contribute to team learning and teaching.
  • Own projects end to end, including requirements refinement, technical designs and specifications, implementation, launch, and maintenance.
  • Collaborate with Revenue Infrastructure, Core Tech, Machine Learning, and Data Science teams.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of experience.
  • Strong product impact focus and ability to collaborate with product managers, designers, analysts, and engineers.
  • Demonstrated ownership, autonomy, follow-through, and commitment to solving problems completely.
  • Growth mindset and willingness to continuously improve.
  • Ability to mentor engineers and provide guidance on system architecture, API design, data modeling, and tradeoffs.
  • Bonus: expertise with Python and/or Rust, TypeScript, React, or React Native.
  • Bonus: experience in advertising, familiarity with experimentation and analysis, open-source contributions, or interest in Discord.

Benefits

  • Full-time position with equity and benefits.
  • US-based role; salary range and other compensation details are provided in the posting.
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About Discord

501-1,000 employees

Discord is used by over 200 million people every month for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does on our platform: play video games. Over 90% of our users play games, spending a combined 1.5 billion hours playing thousands of unique titles on Discord each month. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games. 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! Take a look at https://discordapp.com/jobs for openings.