Current Openings
Software Engineer – Infrastructure
About Us
Discourse is a global company with a product that is 100% open source. Our team is 100 people and growing. We’re transforming the online community space. Our product powers a substantial segment of successful online communities, with >30,000 Discourse instances globally. We have thousands of paying customers, with a growing number of Fortune 500 companies on our list, alongside many leading players in the fast-growth technology, gaming and AI spaces.
Important location info:
Within Europe, we only hire from:
- Austria
- Italy
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- United Kingdom
About the job
The infrastructure team at Discourse are computing-system generalists. In this role, you’ll work across all layers of our tech stack, focusing on building and maintaining systems for our hosting platform.
Discourse is primarily a hosting company, and robust infrastructure is a core competency for us. You’ll develop tools to reduce toil, enhance reliability, and improve performance. Most deployments are served from our own bare metal, with AWS and other cloud services used as necessary.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Applying fundamental computing theory to solve problems in sustainable space and time.
- When reasoning about infrastructure improvements, draw upon these combined skills to choose or build the right tool for the job.
- While stewarding code along the path from initial development to eventual retirement, support and document the system for the operators who depend on it.
We’re looking for someone who:
- Has a well-rounded understanding of how applications interface with the operating system, how the operating system interfaces with the network.
- Can read C, and feels at home in Unix-like systems.
- Has fluency in at least one high-level programming language. We have a large amount of infrastructure tooling, primarily in Go and Ruby.
- Has experience with at least some of tools the we use: PostgreSQL, Docker, HAProxy, Prometheus, Grafana.
At Discourse, the ability to communicate well in writing is paramount. We use our own software, Discourse, for most communication and most of your interaction with customers and team members will be in writing. In order to live these values, we look for folks who:
- Are conscientious and organized;
- Are proactive and focused on execution;
- Are able to make decisions quickly and communicate effectively;
- Are able to work well independently and remotely;
- Are kind to their co-workers;
- Share in our mission to make the Internet better.
About our pay & benefits
We believe that high-quality benefits make our team more effective. We’ve been thoughtful about our benefits package which includes a completely flexible schedule, 5 weeks of vacation per year, funding for a co-working stipend, and much more!
Our Salary Framework is location and experience based and we’re happy to provide a range up front. We also give every employee a stake in the success of the business, regardless of seniority or role. All full-time employees are eligible to receive equity options in the company as part of our equity incentive program.
Lastly, we believe in having a welcoming workplace where people with diverse backgrounds and cultures can create something great together. We encourage you to apply, even if you don’t meet every qualification! Apply by sending an intro to who you are and resume to jobs@discourse.org.