Reposted :Staff Software Engineer, Ads Infrastructure

Staff Software Engineer – Ads Infrastructure

📍 San Francisco, CA | Remote (U.S.)

💼 Full-Time | 💰 $248,000 – $279,000 + Equity + Benefits

About Discord

With over 200 million users each month, Discord is the go-to platform where people gather around shared interests—especially gaming. 90% of our users play games, spending billions of hours connecting with others before, during, and after gameplay. As we evolve, we're building new revenue streams to sustain and scale our mission—starting with a world-class ads platform.

The Role: Ads Infrastructure Engineer

Join Discord’s Ads Delivery team at the forefront of building the company’s next major business line. You’ll tackle complex distributed systems challenges and help power a real-time, auction-based ad platform. This is a rare opportunity to impact millions of users while shaping the architecture of a high-scale, high-reliability system from the ground up.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, low-latency systems for delivering effective and responsible ads.
• Develop infrastructure for budget pacing, frequency capping, ad ranking, and high-throughput data ingestion.
• Architect and scale an auction-based ad marketplace, optimizing ad delivery through real-time bidding and market dynamics.
• Collaborate with Product, Data, and Infrastructure teams to build reliable, observable, and data-validated systems.
• Own projects end-to-end—from design and implementation to monitoring and scaling in production.
• Use large-scale data to validate optimization algorithms and improve ad effectiveness and system resilience.

What You Bring

• 8+ years of backend software engineering experience in large-scale environments (Python, Rust, Elixir preferred).
• Experience designing and deploying distributed systems, databases, and caching layers.
• Proficiency with cloud services and observability tools (e.g., Datadog).
• Hands-on experience with event streaming tools (Kafka, PubSub).
• Proven technical leadership, with at least 2 years leading engineering initiatives or teams.
• Strong data validation mindset and ability to design systems driven by real-world analytics.
• Deep empathy for both users and internal stakeholders—always seeking feedback and optimizing experience.

Why This Role Is Exciting

• Shape the future of ads at Discord by developing infrastructure from the ground up.
• Work on real-time optimization problems at massive scale with direct business impact.
• Help drive Discord’s next major revenue stream, empowering game publishers and creators.
• Collaborate with a high-caliber team of engineers, product managers, and data scientists.

💼 Compensation

• Base Salary: $248,000 – $279,000
• Equity: Generous equity packages
• Benefits: Comprehensive health coverage, mental health support, wellness stipends, flexible PTO, and more

👉 Apply Now

Come help build the infrastructure powering ads that don’t suck. Work on hard problems. Build at scale. Change how communities and advertisers connect—only on Discord.