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Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

Discord - San Francisco Bay Area

Posted Jun 3, 2026

Benefits

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Salary
$160K-$180K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
401(k) match
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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)
$116,543 U.S. median for this role
Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)
+9.8% - Much faster than average

46% above the BLS role benchmark for software engineering aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

Role function
Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
Seniority
Mid From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Offered From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

Software Engineer, Distributed Systems San Francisco Bay Area 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. The Realtime Infrastructure team is responsible for building and maintaining some of Discord's highest scale and most critical services. Those systems are at the core of our text chat infrastructure and facilitate the dispatching of every update to our users sessions. This role will have a significant impact on Discord's overall reliability and performance. It will also help our product teams build new features on top of our infrastructure. This team is small but critical, and its work has a direct impact on Discord's success and ability to scale. This role reports to the Senior Engineering Manager of Realtime Infrastructure. What You'll Be Doing - Build and operate large-scale, reliable and performant distributed systems. - Collaborate with product teams to create new features. - Ensure Discord “just works”. - Write code but also manage our infrastructure. - Work with a talented team of engineers who have built one of the largest communication platforms in the world. What you

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