Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Discord is a platform used by over 200 million people for gaming and community engagement. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead full-stack engineering efforts focused on premium experiences and user identity, driving technical strategy and collaboration across teams.
Responsibilities
- Accelerate growth of existing revenue streams while laying the foundation for new monetization opportunities across surfaces like Nitro, Shop, Boosting, and User Identity
- Own complex initiatives end to end by partnering with Product to refine requirements, create technical specs, and work closely with Design to execute and deliver best-in-class user experiences
- Collaborate with Staff Engineers and partners across the organization to drive technical alignment across systems, products, and long-term vision
- Advise leadership on critical technical considerations tied to engineering excellence and high-impact initiatives, and partner on strategic planning to improve how we build and operate
- Lead a full-stack engineering work across Web, Android, and iOS, setting the technical bar for your team and helping them achieve it
- Rapidly prototype new features and synthesize insights through experimentation, thriving in ambiguous problem spaces where the right path isn't always obvious
Skills
- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- Full-stack proficiency
- Product sense
- Technical leadership
- Ownership mentality
- Holistic approach to problem solving
- Performance-focused mindset
- Growth mindset
- Growth and monetization experience
- Experimentation and data driven decision making
- Optimization at scale
- Passion for Discord
Benefits
Company Overview
Discord is an online voice, video, and text communication platform designed for creating communities. It was founded in 2015, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is https://discord.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Discord has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 9 in 2026, 44 in 2025, 32 in 2024, 13 in 2023, 18 in 2022, 5 in 2021, 2 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.