Staff Software Engineer, Audio/Video Infrastructure

About the position

Discord is looking for an engineer excited about building the software that powers our realtime Audio & Video infrastructure. The Audio & Video Infrastructure team builds and maintain our WebRTC software and scales the system that powers it for all our users. Your role will have a significant impact on the quality of experience for all Discord users utilizing these features. This opportunity calls for an engineer ready to tackle challenging problems, drive improvements, and contribute to the technology that connects millions of people globally.

Responsibilities

• Build large scale realtime Audio & Video systems
• Scale the system and optimize quality and reliability for users
• Transitioning our infrastructure to running on the edge for lower latency
• Collaborate with product teams to add new features
• Work with a talented team of engineers who have built one of the largest communication platforms in the world

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience working with video infrastructure
• Prior experience working with large scale systems
• Experience working with WebRTC, HLS or DASH
• You understand observability and monitoring and leverages this to solve system issues
• You excel in undefined environments and get excited about finding solutions to complex technical challenges
• Comfortable reading and writing code in large existing codebases

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Elixir
• Familiarity with codecs such as H.264, HEVC and AV1
• Experience with network protocols like RTMP, HTTP, UDP and QUIC
• You have built or contributed to open source projects

Benefits

• Equity
• Benefits