Jobs at Discord

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Discord, founded in 2015 by Jason Citron and Stan Vishnevskiy, began as a voice chat platform for gamers but has evolved into a global community hub with over 150 million monthly active users. Its real‑time, low‑latency communication stack—combining text, voice, and video channels—has become the standard for online collaboration, and its open API has spawned thousands of bots and integrations that power millions of servers worldwide.

Hiring at Discord spans engineering, product, design, data science, security, and community‑operations roles. Candidates can expect a remote‑first or hybrid model, rapid iteration cycles, and a focus on user safety and scalability. The company values diversity, encourages open‑source contributions, and rewards solutions that improve reliability and latency for millions of concurrent users.

Job Transparency’s Discord listings provide full salary ranges, equity details, and employee sentiment ratings. By comparing pay data across roles and teams, you can assess compensation fairness, negotiate confidently, and gauge how team culture aligns with your career goals before submitting an application.

Staff Product Designer, Premium Products

Company: Discord

Location: San Francisco, CA

Posted Mar 11, 2023

As a product designer, you'll be involved in the full product development process, from brainstorming to launch, focusing on Premium Products and improving the experience for Nitro subscribers. You'll partner with engineers, product managers, and other peers to oversee the user experience, create wireframes, mockups, and prototypes, and test and iterate on designs.

Group Product Manager, Core Product

Company: Discord

Location: San Francisco, CA

Posted Mar 10, 2023

Discord is looking for a Group Product Manager to lead product areas, including creating a vision, building systems and features, and building a product group to help users communicate with each other. The ideal candidate has 6+ years of experience building and shipping great consumer software, 3+ years of experience managing product managers, and strong product sense and pride in understanding customers.

Senior Software Engineer - Financial Platform

Company: Discord

Location: Remote

Posted Mar 12, 2023

Discord is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Revenue group to build financial systems and integrations, improve reliability and stability of billing system, and collaborate with various teams to evolve payments and payouts platforms.

Senior Software Engineer - Activities Platform

Company: Discord

Location: San Francisco, CA

Posted Mar 12, 2023

Discord is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Activities Platform team to maintain the SDK, APIs and platform services for Activities, and help build new tools for developers and expand the community of developers using the platform.

Senior Engineering Manager - Core Product

Company: Discord

Location: San Francisco, CA

Posted Mar 11, 2023

Discord is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the engineers building premium products and platform. The role involves managing multiple full-stack teams, working cross-functionally, and developing insights to improve team performance. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of software engineering experience, 3+ years of people management experience, and a product sense.

Sr. Product Manager, Gaming

Company: Discord

Location: San Francisco, CA

Posted Mar 09, 2023

Discord is seeking a Product Manager to lead the development of social tools for gamers. The ideal candidate has experience in product management, shipping products, and is familiar with gaming markets and genres.

Staff Software Engineer, Personalization

Company: Discord

Location: San Francisco, CA

Posted Mar 13, 2023

Discord is seeking a strong technical leader to build and iterate on new products to personalize Discord, collaborating with engineers across multiple teams to achieve goals. The ideal candidate has 6+ years of full-stack experience, technical leadership skills, a builder's mindset, deep curiosity, user empathy, comfort in chaos, and ruthless prioritization.

Manager, Adaptive Data Operations

Company: Discord

Location: San Francisco, CA

Posted Mar 11, 2023

The Manager of Adaptive Data will lead a team responsible for keeping Discord safe, working with leaders across the Safety org to detect, respond to incidents, and measure impact. The ideal candidate has 7+ years of experience managing high-performing teams, a strong interest in online harm detection, and analytical skills to drive business decisions.

Adaptive Data Operations Specialist

Company: Discord

Location: San Francisco, CA

Posted Mar 11, 2023

As an Anti-Spam Adaptive Data Specialist, you will be responsible for helping to keep Discord free of spam by analyzing new and potential product features, managing incoming streams of spam reports, and working cross-collaboratively with other teams to identify and address spam-related issues.

Product Manager, Safety

Company: Discord

Location: San Francisco, CA

Posted Mar 11, 2023

Discord is seeking a Product Manager to lead the Safety team, responsible for creating a vision, building systems and features, and ideating creative solutions to advance the mission towards Safety at Discord. The ideal candidate has 2-3+ years of product management experience, strong analytical ability, and sufficient technical domain expertise.

Senior Software Engineer, Detection Machine Learning Infrastructure

Company: Discord

Location: San Francisco, CA

Posted Mar 11, 2023

Discord is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build real-time, low-latency machine learning services to detect abusive content and harmful behaviors at scale. The ideal candidate has 4+ years of experience building, deploying, and operating large-scale distributed systems, and 3+ years of experience working on infrastructure in the JVM ecosystem.

Staff Software Engineer - Premium Products

Company: Discord

Location: San Francisco, CA

Posted Mar 09, 2023

Discord is seeking a Staff Engineer to oversee the technical roadmap for the Nitro Platform group, collaborating with teams across the organization to ensure technical strategy aligns with revenue goals. Requirements include full-stack experience, mobile experience, and a growth mindset.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is it like to work at Discord?
Discord promotes a community‑first culture where engineers build features that support billions of conversations. The work environment is remote‑first with flexible hours, but teams meet daily for stand‑ups and retrospectives. Employees receive generous equity packages, comprehensive health benefits, and frequent community‑building events such as hackathons and live Q&A sessions with leadership. The company prioritizes user safety, so security and compliance roles collaborate closely with product to implement real‑time moderation tools.
What types of positions are available at Discord?
Discord offers roles across several domains: Software Engineering (frontend, backend, infrastructure, platform), Product Management, UX/UI Design, Data Science & Analytics, Security & Trust, Community Operations & Support, Marketing, HR, Finance, and Customer Success. Each team focuses on enhancing the platform’s reliability, latency, and user experience for a diverse global audience.
How can I stand out as an applicant for Discord jobs?
Demonstrate a passion for community building by showcasing projects that involve real‑time communication or moderation. Highlight technical achievements such as low‑latency networking, scalable microservices, or open‑source contributions to related projects. Include metrics that show impact—e.g., reduced server latency by X% or increased user engagement by Y%—and tailor your resume to the specific role. When applying, mention familiarity with Discord’s API, and provide a link to a portfolio or GitHub repository that reflects the skills the hiring team seeks.

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