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Senior Software Engineer- Database Infrastructure
At a Glance
- Location
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Experience
- 4+ years
- Compensation
- or this full-time position is $196,000 to $220,500 + equity + benefits. Our sala
- Posted
- 2026-03-25T14:33:14-04:00
Key Requirements
Required Skills
Requirements
4+ years of experience with building distributed systems and datastore infrastructure
Experience with highly-available and distributed databases: e.g.
ScyllaDB, Cassandra, BigTable, DynamoDB, CockroachDB, Postgres w/HA, etc.
Rust, Go, Java, C, C++
Strong operating systems, distributed systems and concurrency control fundamentals
Familiarity with Linux internals
Team
How Discord Indexes Trillions of Messages
How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages
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You will:
Build and operate large-scale, reliable and performant data systems with ScyllaDB, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, Linux and Rust.
Collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to develop storage primitives enabling all of Discord.
About the Company
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How Discord Indexes Billions of Messages
How Discord Stores Billions of Messages