We're looking for a Senior Engineer to join our Desktop Platform team to help lead the technical vision for Discord's client experience across Windows, macOS, and Linux. You will report to our Engineering Manager, Desktop Platform, and play a critical role in shaping the technical foundation that powers Discord's user experience for millions of people worldwide. Our goal is to build products that our customers absolutely love - products that are functional, reliable, usable, and delightful, with performance as a core feature and an iterative approach to solving complex problems.

What you'll do

• Build and maintain foundational components for Discord’s desktop clients.
• Interface directly with macOS/Windows operating system APIs to leverage platform-specific capabilities.
• Help drive engineering quality for desktop client performance, developing systems and processes to ensure quality can be optimized and sustainably maintained.
• Troubleshoot complex issues using advanced debugging tools and techniques.
• Support internal developers with desktop build environment and tooling.

What you have

• 5+ years experience as a software engineer working on large, cross-platform desktop applications.
• You have experience with desktop performance and Electron and are excited by the challenge of delivering an incredible product to 200 million users.
• Expertise in either macOS or Windows applications.
• Strong technical depth with C++ and/or Rust.
• Exceptional problem-solving abilities, with a track record of diagnosing and resolving complex performance issues.
• You understand observability and monitoring and leverages this to solve system issues.

Bonus Points

• Active in the Electron community, with contributions to open source or technical talks at conferences.
• Experience with Objective-C++, JavaScript/TypeScript and/or Python.
• You excel in undefined environments and get excited about finding solutions to complex technical challenges
• Comfortable reading and writing code in large existing codebases

Things that may interest you

• Our tech stack is Electron, C++, Objective-C++, Rust and Typescript.