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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Client Platform
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Job Description
- Req#: 32844768613
- Technical Leadership & Strategy
- Lead the technical roadmap and architecture for client platforms.
- Set performance and scalability standards across mobile, desktop, and web clients.
- System & Platform Optimization
- Build and maintain foundational client libraries and infrastructure.
- Lead performance optimization across the React Native stack, and help evolve it across other platforms (iOS, Android, desktop, web).
- Quality Ownership
- Own engineering quality and performance benchmarks.
- Establish processes, tooling, and observability for consistent performance improvements.
- Serve as a technical mentor and multiplier for client engineers.
- Help upskill the team and foster technical leadership.
- Experience:
- 10+ years in client-side engineering, ideally across mobile, desktop, and web.
- Proven success improving end-to-end performance in high-scale, user-facing apps.
- Familiarity with Swift, Kotlin, or C++ for mobile and low-level optimization.
- Comfortable using profiling, instrumentation, and performance tools.
- Leadership:
- Strong technical communication, cross-functional influence, and architectural vision.
- Experience in establishing best practices for quality, accessibility, and performance at scale.
- Contributions to open-source or leadership in React Native or performance communities.
- Expertise in internationalization, particularly optimizing apps in low-bandwidth or mobile-first regions.
- Familiarity with game dev tools, game engines, or real-time systems (audio/video/chat).
- Experience working on platforms with millions of daily active users.
- Lead performance for a platform with massive scale (200M+ MAUs).
- Work at the intersection of gaming, real-time systems, and social tech.
- Opportunity to impact core product experience used by a global, diverse audience.
- Join a team that values technical depth, mentorship, and engineering craftsmanship.
- Central platform for gaming culture, but growing far beyond that.
- Mission-driven team focused on building belonging and shared experiences.
- Strong engineering culture with high-impact work and visibility.
- Competitive comp, stock options, and strong equity upside.
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Client Platform
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Job Description
Title: Senior Staff Software Engineer – Client Platform
Location: San Francisco Bay Area (onsite or hybrid likely required)
Type: Full-time
Base Salary Range: $304,000 – $342,000 (plus equity & benefits)
Team: Client Platform & Performance
Reports to: Director of Engineering, Client Platform & Performance
To define and lead the technical strategy for Discord's client performance across mobile, desktop, and web, ensuring a seamless, fast, and scalable user experience for 200M+ monthly users.
This role is both deeply technical and highly influential: you'll be setting engineering direction, mentoring other senior engineers, and driving systemic performance improvements across the entire stack.
Why This Role Is Exciting
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