Discord

IT Ops Engineer

Discord • $124K — $155K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Hands-on experience across various IT support areas, emphasizing breadth over depth.
  • Instinct for automation, preferring it over manual processes.
  • Strong troubleshooting skills with a focus on understanding systems holistically.
  • Collaborative mindset with clear communication and a desire to learn.
  • 3+ years in IT Helpdesk support and managing backend systems in fast-paced tech environments.

Responsibilities

  • Assist team members by managing the shared IT support queue for daily tech needs.
  • Provide hands-on support for devices, identity management, SaaS access, and endpoint security.
  • Ensure reliability of conferencing and AV rooms, supporting live events as needed.
  • Manage onboarding and offboarding processes for new and departing employees.
  • Take initiative on scoped projects, focusing on automating repetitive tasks.
  • Participate in on-call rotations to support IT operations.

Benefits

  • Equity options in addition to salary.
  • Flexible work environment with in-office requirements.
  • Opportunities for professional growth and skill development.
Full Job Description
This is an IT Ops Engineer role, the modern generalist who keeps the whole employee technology surface running: devices, identity, network, SaaS, collaboration, and the endpoint security surface we share with Enterprise Security. You work the shared queue alongside the team. This is a growth role, a place to go broad across enterprise systems, build real depth, and grow toward owning a domain end to end.

What you will do
  • Work the shared IT support queue alongside the team, helping Discordians with their day-to-day technology needs. This is core to the role for everyone on the team.
  • Support the full employee technology surface hands-on: device and endpoint setup (Jamf, Intune), identity and access basics (Okta), SaaS access, and the endpoint security tooling we run with Enterprise Security.
  • Keep the conferencing and AV rooms reliable, and be hands on deck to support live events. You keep the rooms working and support the event, not architect an AV build from scratch.
  • Run onboarding and offboarding so a new Discordian is equipped on day one and deprovisioned on exit.
  • Take on well-scoped projects with growing autonomy, and start turning the repetitive manual work you see in the queue into automation.
  • Participate in on-call rotations.

What you should have
  • Hands-on exposure across several parts of that surface, the more of it you have touched, the better. Breadth matters more than depth in any one area at this level.
  • A genuine automation instinct, even if early: you reach for automation before a runbook, and you lean on AI to write the scripts and glue that make manual work disappear.
  • Strong troubleshooting instincts and a habit of understanding the system, not just clearing the symptom.
  • A collaborative, low-ego, secure-by-design posture, clear written communication, and eagerness to grow across domains.
  • 3+ years of experience providing IT Helpdesk support and exposure to managing backend IT systems (e.g. Okta, Jamf etc.) in high growth tech companies.

Bonus points
  • Exposure to SOC 2 or SOX access-review processes.
  • Background in high-growth consumer tech.


For this role, the Hiring Manager needs this person to be in the office 3 days a week.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $124,000 to $155,00 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits.

About Discord

Discord is a communication platform designed for creating communities. The platform allows users to create and join servers, which are essentially chat rooms, and communicate with other users via text, voice, and video. Discord was founded in 2015 and has grown rapidly, with over 250 million registered users as of 2019. The company has raised $480 million in total funding.
Learn more about Discord
Size
800 employees
Industry
Founded
2012

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