Discord
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$913.9M
6 rounds on record
Latest round
$15.7M
Venture round · Jan 2023 · 3 yr ago
Team
837
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2024
Hiring now
48
+16 posted in 30 days
The money's age
Long since its last round
44 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
28/100
hiring for its size, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Feb 9
Launched Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally · discord.com
Sep 28, 2024
On the Hacker News front page How Discord stores trillions of messages (2023) · 435 points
Jan 17, 2023
Raised a round Venture round $15.7M · SEC Form D
Aug 15, 2022
On the Hacker News front page How Discord supercharges network disks for extreme low latency · 551 points
Sep 9, 2021
Raised a round Venture round $500M · SEC Form D
Aug 24, 2021
On the Hacker News front page How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (2017) · 696 points
Jun 28, 2021
Raised a round Venture round $104.1M · SEC Form D
Jan 10, 2021
Launched on Hacker News Show HN: We made a Discord community for sharing projects, finding co-founders
Dec 11, 2020
Raised a round Venture round $100M · SEC Form D
Nov 10, 2020
On the Hacker News front page Using Rust to Scale Elixir for 11M Concurrent Users (2019) · 332 points
Jun 30, 2020
Raised a round Venture round $100M · SEC Form D
Dec 21, 2018
Raised a round Venture round $94M · SEC Form D
2015
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.01%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Jan 2023 | $15.7M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Sep 2021 | $500M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Jun 2021 | $104.1M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Dec 2020 | $100M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Jun 2020 | $100M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Dec 2018 | $94M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Discord Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Les WrightExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Jason CitronExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Stanislav VishnevskiyExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Clint SmithExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Tomasz MarcinkowskiExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
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How Discord hires
Truth index
B 83/100
Median time to fill
60 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
50%
Reposted roles
0%
Discord scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 6 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 50% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 60 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Visa sponsorship
- United States · H-1B filings in 12 months: 29 · green card filings: 6
Overview
Discord is a voice, video, and text communication platform that enables users to create and join topic-based public and private communities known as "servers." Originally launched in 2015 to support multiplayer video gaming communities, the platform has expanded into a general-purpose hub for interest groups, educational communities, remote teams, and content creators. Through persistent text channels, real-time voice chat rooms, direct messaging, screen sharing, and third-party bot integrations, Discord provides scalable communication tools for millions of active communities worldwide.
News
"Oh, can you not hear me...?" I've summarized and solved common Discord glitches by symptomオカピ研究所ゲーム攻略AI活用
I think there are quite a lot of people who use Discord for voice chat while playing games with friends, but it's also an app where it's common for things to feel "a bit off" in subtle ways. - People say they "can't hear me" even though I'm talking - Conv
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Is Discord down? Thousands of users report gaming chat service outage, 'Our team is working on a fix'
Discord faced a service disruption on Tuesday morning, affecting many users' access.
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Rockstar had a mole in the union worker Discord server "for over two and a half years", GTA 6 company reveals during legal battle
Court filings from the battle between GTA 6 studio Rockstar and fired workers have revealed how Rockstar accessed a Discord server set up by union organisers.
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How a Discord Agent Cleared Five Years of OSS Tech Debt
After years of stalled upgrade attempts and contributor churn, CodeRabbit Discord helped Saddlebag Exchange complete a 107-file frontend upgrade in one morning.
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A letter to the Discord community in Brazil
On the order from Brazil's ANPD to suspend screensharing and video features in the country, how we're complying, and our commitment to our community in Brazil.
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Switch by Flint AI: Your Team and Agents in One Room
Open-source collaborative workspace that puts people and agents in one shared room inside Slack, Teams, Discord, or Mattermost. Context survives every handoff.
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Discord Is Bringing Back Age Verification for Millions of Users
Discord age verification now locks stage channels, DMs, and adult content behind four ID methods - each with different privacy trade-offs worth knowing.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Discord over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
109
Postings analysed
78
Stack modernity
79/100AI adopter
Languages
Python59%
TypeScript29%
Rust24%
SQL19%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js17%
React Native9%
Flask6%
Django4%
Databases
Google BigQuery9%
BigQuery8%
PostgreSQL5%
Cassandra4%
Cloud & platforms
GCP15%
AWS12%
Kubernetes10%
Figma8%
AI & ML
LLM8%
Claude3%
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109 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$245k
Typical range
$131k – $380k
Open positions
47
46
Jobs
Junior
8.7%
Middle
8.7%
Senior
50%
Staff
32.6%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 4 | $183k | $131k – $200k |
| Middle | 4 | $171k | $162k – $200k |
| Senior | 23 | $245k | $167k – $380k |
| Staff | 15 | $310k | $149k – $341k |
Highest paying role
Senior Data Science Manager, Developer Platform
$380k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Discord
By role, level and city, against the market · 47 jobs with pay
People
Les Wright
Executive Officer
Jason Citron
Executive Officer, Director
Stanislav Vishnevskiy
Executive Officer
Clint Smith
Executive Officer
Tomasz Marcinkowski
Executive Officer
Josh Elman
Director
A. Relan
Director
Stephen Gillett
Director
Mitch Lasky
Director
David Sze
Director
Danny Rimer
Director
Amrita Ahuja
Director
Names and roles come from public filings, company registers and the company's own site. Is this you? Correct or remove · How we handle this data
Growth
Hiring Momentum
75/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
48
16 opened / 17 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
59 days
faster than 24% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
32% ▼
Data Science
10% ▼
Design
10% ▲
AI/ML
6%
Leadership
6%
Management
6%
Actively hiring for Backend (+5 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Windows to stack
Oct 2026
Added GDPR to stack
Oct 2026
Added EU AI Act to stack
Oct 2026
Added VPN to stack
Oct 2026
Added DNS to stack
Oct 2026
Added DHCP to stack
Oct 2026
Added SIEM to stack
Sep 2026
Added Adobe Photoshop to stack
Sep 2026
Added Adobe Illustrator to stack
Sep 2026
Added LinkedIn to stack
Sep 2026
Added Ray to stack
Sep 2026
Added Anyscale to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
5
Hiring now
2
Countries
2
Busiest office
San Francisco
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San Francisco
United States
HQ
San Francisco, CA
41 open roles 55 posted in 90 days 59% engineering 7% remote 200-500 est. staff $248k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Design, Data Science
Lisbon
Portugal
Regional office
Portugal
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering
Washington
United States
Regional office
Washington, D.C.
1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff
New York
United States
Regional office
New York, NY
Los Angeles
United States
Regional office
Los Angeles Metro Area
Earlier presence
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Jobs
$132k – $149k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Washington • San Francisco • Los Angeles • New York
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$196k – $221k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
Rust
TypeScript
Elixir
MVP
DevOps
GCP
Azure
Analytics
A/B Testing
Management
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$248k – $341k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp
Python
Elixir
Kubernetes
Management
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$304k – $380k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • San Francisco
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$248k – $279k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 6+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
Rust
TypeScript
Terraform
CI/CD
IAM
Cybersecurity
Okta
Management
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$148k – $167k per year • In office • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • San Francisco
Figma
Management
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$188k – $212k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • San Francisco
GitHub
Design
Figma
Management
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$221k – $245k per year • In office • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
SQL
Google BigQuery
BigQuery
AI/ML
dbt
Anomaly Detection
Machine Learning
Analytics
Tableau
Looker
Management
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$196k – $245k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • San Francisco
JavaScript
React.js
Mobile
React Native
Management
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$160k – $200k per year • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
JavaScript
React.js
Mobile
React Native
Management
Discord
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$221k – $245k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp
Python
SQL
Apache Kafka
Google BigQuery
BigQuery
AI/ML
Spark
Dagster
dbt
Anomaly Detection
Machine Learning
Mobile
AppsFlyer SDK
Adjust
DevOps
SLI/SLO/SLA
Analytics
Tableau
Looker
Management
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$248k – $310k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 3+ years exp
Python
Rust
TypeScript
AI Agents
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Cloudflare
Buildkite
Bazel
IAM
Cybersecurity
Wiz
Zero Trust
Least Privilege
Management
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Financials
Total raised
$913.9M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
6
Funding rounds