Senior Software Engineer, Ads Careers at Discord - San Francisco Bay Area, CA | Apply Now!
Discord
Senior Software Engineer, Ads Careers at Discord - San Francisco Bay Area, CA | Apply Now!
Job Description
Senior Software Engineer, Ads at Discord - San Francisco Bay Area
Join Discord's revolutionary Ads team and shape the future of gaming advertising. With 200M+ monthly users and 1.5B gaming hours, Discord is the premier platform for game developers and players.
Role Overview
Discord seeks a Senior Software Engineer, Ads to join our growing team in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our Ads team is transforming user experiences through innovative formats like Quests, creating revenue streams that benefit game developers, players, and Discord alike.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll design and build end-to-end ad products, collaborate across Revenue Infrastructure, Core Tech, Machine Learning, and Data Science teams, and drive revenue growth while maintaining exceptional user engagement. This role demands 4+ years of experience, with 2+ years in ad delivery, and a passion for impact-focused engineering.
Discord's engineering culture emphasizes ownership, rapid iteration, and technical excellence. Read our engineering blog to understand our approach to scaling platforms that power gaming communities worldwide.
Key Responsibilities
- Full-Stack Development: Design, build, and maintain Ads products from backend APIs to frontend experiences.
- Cross-Team Collaboration: Partner with Revenue Infrastructure, Core Tech, ML, and Data Science engineers.
- Strategic Partnership: Work with engineering, product, and leadership to scale advertising features.
- System Architecture: Architect maintainable systems enabling quick launches and iteration.
- Ownership & Autonomy: Own projects end-to-end, from requirements to production maintenance.
- Best Practices: Introduce coding standards and operational excellence to the team.
- Mentorship: Guide junior engineers on architecture, APIs, data modeling, and tradeoffs.
- Revenue Impact: Build features driving sustainable revenue growth and user engagement.
- Innovation: Develop novel ad formats enhancing the Discord gaming experience.
- Technical Design: Create specifications and conduct design reviews for complex systems.
- Production Excellence: Monitor, optimize, and maintain live ad delivery systems.
- Stakeholder Management: Refine requirements with Product Managers and cross-functional teams.
- Scalability Focus: Ensure systems handle Discord's massive scale (200M+ users).
Qualifications
Must-Have Requirements:
- 4+ years software engineering experience, 2+ years in ad delivery/digital advertising
- Proven impact focus - transforming good products into great ones
- Demonstrated ownership and autonomous problem-solving
- Growth mindset with continuous learning culture
- Experience mentoring on system architecture and API design
Technical Skills: Full-stack development (React, Node.js/Python preferred), scalable systems, microservices, cloud infrastructure, database design.
Bonus Qualifications: Gaming industry experience, ad tech platform expertise, ML integration experience.
Salary & Benefits
Salary Range: $220,000 - $320,000 USD annually (based on experience and location), plus equity.
- Comprehensive health, dental, vision coverage
- 401(k) with company matching
- Unlimited PTO
- Remote-friendly with Bay Area office
- Annual wellness stipend ($1,000+)
- Professional development budget
- Gaming hardware allowance
- Discord Nitro Gold subscription
- Generous parental leave
- Mental health benefits
- Team offsites and gaming events
Why Join Discord?
Discord powers 1.5 billion gaming hours monthly across thousands of titles. Our Ads team sits at the intersection of gaming passion and technical innovation, building products that enhance experiences for 200M+ users.
Engineering Culture: Ownership-driven, with autonomy to solve complex problems. We value impact over process, rapid iteration over perfectionism.
Impact Scale: Your work reaches massive gaming communities, influencing developer tools and player discovery.
Career Growth: Mentorship opportunities, technical leadership paths, and exposure to ML, data science, and revenue systems.
Discord's Bay Area team combines remote flexibility with collaborative in-person innovation sessions.
How to Apply
Ready to revolutionize gaming advertising? Submit your resume, GitHub/portfolio, and a brief note on your favorite Discord gaming experience. Our team reviews applications on a rolling basis.
Application Tips:
- Highlight ad tech experience and revenue impact
- Share examples of end-to-end project ownership
- Demonstrate cross-functional collaboration success
- Include gaming industry projects or contributions
Join us in building the future of social gaming and digital advertising!
Locations
- San Francisco, California, United States
- Oakland, California, United States
- San Jose, California, United States
- Remote, United States (Remote)
Salary
231,000 - 352,000 USD / yearly
Source: ai estimated
* This is an estimated range based on market data and may vary based on experience and qualifications.
Skills Required
- Backend Developmentintermediate
- Frontend Developmentintermediate
- Full-Stack Engineeringintermediate
- Ad Tech Platformsintermediate
- Digital Advertisingintermediate
- Revenue Engineeringintermediate
- System Architectureintermediate
- API Designintermediate
- Microservicesintermediate
- Scalable Systemsintermediate
- React.jsintermediate
- Node.jsintermediate
- Pythonintermediate
- JavaScript/TypeScriptintermediate
- Database Designintermediate
- Machine Learning Integrationintermediate
- Data Science Collaborationintermediate
- DevOpsintermediate
- Cloud Infrastructureintermediate
- Product Engineeringintermediate
- Cross-Functional Collaborationintermediate
Required Qualifications
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience (experience)
- 2+ years of experience in ad delivery or digital advertising space (experience)
- Strong focus on impact-driven engineering with proven product improvements (experience)
- Demonstrated sense of ownership and autonomous problem-solving (experience)
- Growth mindset with history of learning from mistakes and continuous improvement (experience)
- Experience mentoring junior engineers on architecture, APIs, and data modeling (experience)
- Hands-on experience designing, building, and maintaining backend-to-frontend systems (experience)
- Proven ability to collaborate with product managers, designers, and analysts (experience)
- Expertise in architecting simple, maintainable, scalable systems (experience)
- Strong communication skills for working with cross-functional leadership (experience)
- Experience owning projects end-to-end from requirements to launch (experience)
- Deep domain knowledge in gaming industry or social platforms preferred (experience)
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience) (experience)
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain new Ads products and infrastructure across full stack
- Collaborate with Revenue Infrastructure, Core Tech, ML, and Data Science teams
- Partner strategically with engineering, product, and cross-functional leadership
- Develop and scale digital advertising features driving revenue growth
- Architect simple, maintainable systems for rapid iteration and high quality
- Model strong ownership by acting autonomously and building team confidence
- Introduce coding standards and operational best practices to the team
- Continuously learn and teach engineering best practices
- Own projects end-to-end from requirements refinement to launch and maintenance
- Enhance user engagement through innovative ad formats like Quests
- Build win-win-win distribution tools for game developers, players, and Discord
- Optimize ad delivery systems for performance and scalability
- Conduct technical design reviews and create detailed specifications
- Monitor and maintain production systems post-launch
Benefits
- general: Competitive salary with equity package
- general: Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
- general: 401(k) matching program
- general: Unlimited PTO policy
- general: Remote-friendly work environment
- general: Annual wellness stipend
- general: Professional development budget
- general: Gaming hardware stipend
- general: Discord Nitro subscription
- general: Parental leave benefits
- general: Mental health support programs
- general: Team offsites and social events
- general: Learning and conference attendance budget
- general: Flexible work hours
- general: Company-sponsored gaming events
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Senior Software Engineer, Ads Careers at Discord - San Francisco Bay Area, CA | Apply Now!
Job Description
Senior Software Engineer, Ads at Discord - San Francisco Bay Area
Join Discord's revolutionary Ads team and shape the future of gaming advertising. With 200M+ monthly users and 1.5B gaming hours, Discord is the premier platform for game developers and players.
Role Overview
Discord seeks a Senior Software Engineer, Ads to join our growing team in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our Ads team is transforming user experiences through innovative formats like Quests, creating revenue streams that benefit game developers, players, and Discord alike.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll design and build end-to-end ad products, collaborate across Revenue Infrastructure, Core Tech, Machine Learning, and Data Science teams, and drive revenue growth while maintaining exceptional user engagement. This role demands 4+ years of experience, with 2+ years in ad delivery, and a passion for impact-focused engineering.
Discord's engineering culture emphasizes ownership, rapid iteration, and technical excellence. Read our engineering blog to understand our approach to scaling platforms that power gaming communities worldwide.
Key Responsibilities
- Full-Stack Development: Design, build, and maintain Ads products from backend APIs to frontend experiences.
- Cross-Team Collaboration: Partner with Revenue Infrastructure, Core Tech, ML, and Data Science engineers.
- Strategic Partnership: Work with engineering, product, and leadership to scale advertising features.
- System Architecture: Architect maintainable systems enabling quick launches and iteration.
- Ownership & Autonomy: Own projects end-to-end, from requirements to production maintenance.
- Best Practices: Introduce coding standards and operational excellence to the team.
- Mentorship: Guide junior engineers on architecture, APIs, data modeling, and tradeoffs.
- Revenue Impact: Build features driving sustainable revenue growth and user engagement.
- Innovation: Develop novel ad formats enhancing the Discord gaming experience.
- Technical Design: Create specifications and conduct design reviews for complex systems.
- Production Excellence: Monitor, optimize, and maintain live ad delivery systems.
- Stakeholder Management: Refine requirements with Product Managers and cross-functional teams.
- Scalability Focus: Ensure systems handle Discord's massive scale (200M+ users).
Qualifications
Must-Have Requirements:
- 4+ years software engineering experience, 2+ years in ad delivery/digital advertising
- Proven impact focus - transforming good products into great ones
- Demonstrated ownership and autonomous problem-solving
- Growth mindset with continuous learning culture
- Experience mentoring on system architecture and API design
Technical Skills: Full-stack development (React, Node.js/Python preferred), scalable systems, microservices, cloud infrastructure, database design.
Bonus Qualifications: Gaming industry experience, ad tech platform expertise, ML integration experience.
Salary & Benefits
Salary Range: $220,000 - $320,000 USD annually (based on experience and location), plus equity.
- Comprehensive health, dental, vision coverage
- 401(k) with company matching
- Unlimited PTO
- Remote-friendly with Bay Area office
- Annual wellness stipend ($1,000+)
- Professional development budget
- Gaming hardware allowance
- Discord Nitro Gold subscription
- Generous parental leave
- Mental health benefits
- Team offsites and gaming events
Why Join Discord?
Discord powers 1.5 billion gaming hours monthly across thousands of titles. Our Ads team sits at the intersection of gaming passion and technical innovation, building products that enhance experiences for 200M+ users.
Engineering Culture: Ownership-driven, with autonomy to solve complex problems. We value impact over process, rapid iteration over perfectionism.
Impact Scale: Your work reaches massive gaming communities, influencing developer tools and player discovery.
Career Growth: Mentorship opportunities, technical leadership paths, and exposure to ML, data science, and revenue systems.
Discord's Bay Area team combines remote flexibility with collaborative in-person innovation sessions.
How to Apply
Ready to revolutionize gaming advertising? Submit your resume, GitHub/portfolio, and a brief note on your favorite Discord gaming experience. Our team reviews applications on a rolling basis.
Application Tips:
- Highlight ad tech experience and revenue impact
- Share examples of end-to-end project ownership
- Demonstrate cross-functional collaboration success
- Include gaming industry projects or contributions
Join us in building the future of social gaming and digital advertising!
Locations
- San Francisco, California, United States
- Oakland, California, United States
- San Jose, California, United States
- Remote, United States (Remote)
Salary
231,000 - 352,000 USD / yearly
Source: ai estimated
* This is an estimated range based on market data and may vary based on experience and qualifications.
Skills Required
- Backend Developmentintermediate
- Frontend Developmentintermediate
- Full-Stack Engineeringintermediate
- Ad Tech Platformsintermediate
- Digital Advertisingintermediate
- Revenue Engineeringintermediate
- System Architectureintermediate
- API Designintermediate
- Microservicesintermediate
- Scalable Systemsintermediate
- React.jsintermediate
- Node.jsintermediate
- Pythonintermediate
- JavaScript/TypeScriptintermediate
- Database Designintermediate
- Machine Learning Integrationintermediate
- Data Science Collaborationintermediate
- DevOpsintermediate
- Cloud Infrastructureintermediate
- Product Engineeringintermediate
- Cross-Functional Collaborationintermediate
Required Qualifications
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience (experience)
- 2+ years of experience in ad delivery or digital advertising space (experience)
- Strong focus on impact-driven engineering with proven product improvements (experience)
- Demonstrated sense of ownership and autonomous problem-solving (experience)
- Growth mindset with history of learning from mistakes and continuous improvement (experience)
- Experience mentoring junior engineers on architecture, APIs, and data modeling (experience)
- Hands-on experience designing, building, and maintaining backend-to-frontend systems (experience)
- Proven ability to collaborate with product managers, designers, and analysts (experience)
- Expertise in architecting simple, maintainable, scalable systems (experience)
- Strong communication skills for working with cross-functional leadership (experience)
- Experience owning projects end-to-end from requirements to launch (experience)
- Deep domain knowledge in gaming industry or social platforms preferred (experience)
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience) (experience)
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain new Ads products and infrastructure across full stack
- Collaborate with Revenue Infrastructure, Core Tech, ML, and Data Science teams
- Partner strategically with engineering, product, and cross-functional leadership
- Develop and scale digital advertising features driving revenue growth
- Architect simple, maintainable systems for rapid iteration and high quality
- Model strong ownership by acting autonomously and building team confidence
- Introduce coding standards and operational best practices to the team
- Continuously learn and teach engineering best practices
- Own projects end-to-end from requirements refinement to launch and maintenance
- Enhance user engagement through innovative ad formats like Quests
- Build win-win-win distribution tools for game developers, players, and Discord
- Optimize ad delivery systems for performance and scalability
- Conduct technical design reviews and create detailed specifications
- Monitor and maintain production systems post-launch
Benefits
- general: Competitive salary with equity package
- general: Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
- general: 401(k) matching program
- general: Unlimited PTO policy
- general: Remote-friendly work environment
- general: Annual wellness stipend
- general: Professional development budget
- general: Gaming hardware stipend
- general: Discord Nitro subscription
- general: Parental leave benefits
- general: Mental health support programs
- general: Team offsites and social events
- general: Learning and conference attendance budget
- general: Flexible work hours
- general: Company-sponsored gaming events
Tags & Categories
Answer 10 quick questions to check your fit for Senior Software Engineer, Ads Careers at Discord - San Francisco Bay Area, CA | Apply Now! @ Discord.
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