Today is my first day at Discourse!

Published July 21, 2025

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Today I am joining Discourse as a software engineer on the infrastructure team.

Who is Discourse?

Discourse is the 100% open source discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet. We make it easy to have meaningful conversations and collaborate anytime, anywhere.

We are the home of ~22k communities across 23 countries and 13 timezones.

Why Discourse?

I'm excited about working at Discourse for a number of reasons really.

1. Most of my tech and programming focused life has revolved around open source software and it's always been a dream to get paid to work on an open source software project.

2. It's a software engineer role on the infrastructure team. I was introduced to DevOps work at my last job and fell down the rabbit hole. I love config based workflows so things like IaC and NixOS have really clicked.

3. The company as a whole. This kind of goes with number 1 but I feel very aligned with Discourse as a company. We work in an async format while being completely remote. The company is very transparent, inclusive, and let's be real, the benefits are great.

I think this can be a very important and fulfilling chapter of my professional and personal life and I'm looking forward to making the internet a better place through open source software.

This is the second time now I've lost a job then found a much, much better one. I think this is a valuable lesson to try and remember if I'm in that situation again.

If Discourse sounds like the place for you, see if we're hiring: https://discourse.org/jobs