Technical Sourcer

Discord

. Partner with hiring managers and technical leaders to understand role requirements, technical stacks, team dynamics, and candidate profiles .

Posted 9/22/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $132,000 - $149,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in technical sourcing and recruitment, with a strong focus on hiring senior and leadership engineering candidates. Proficient in utilizing advanced sourcing techniques and tools to optimize talent acquisition strategies and enhance candidate experience.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Technical SourcingBoolean Search TechniquesStakeholder ManagementMarket MappingPipeline Management

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Hard Skills

Technical AptitudeCandidate EvaluationTalent Pool AnalysisSourcing Metrics AnalysisCreative Talent Identification

Soft Skills

Communication SkillsStakeholder Management

Tools & Technologies

SeekOutGemLinkedIn RecruiterGitHubGreenhouseAI Tooling

Industry Keywords

High-Growth Tech CompanyDistributed SystemsProduct EngineeringSenior EngineersEngineering Managers

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsRay

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Partner with hiring managers and technical leaders to understand role requirements, technical stacks, team dynamics, and candidate profiles
Conduct total addressable market research to size talent pools and inform hiring feasibility and timelines
Develop job mapping strategies by analyzing competitors and relevant technical stacks
Build and execute customized sourcing strategies using boolean search, x-ray techniques, GitHub sourcing, and competitive intelligence
Identify and engage technical talent and partner with recruiters and technical leaders to optimize teams
Craft personalized outreach campaigns for passive senior, staff-level, and leadership engineering candidates
Own candidate experience from initial outreach through recruiter handoff
Represent Discord at company events, technical conferences, meetups, and industry events
Maintain recruiting-system data hygiene and pipeline health metrics
Use sourcing data to optimize approaches and demonstrate ROI

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of experience in technical sourcing or recruitment, preferably in a high-growth tech company environment, on job profiles such as distributed systems and product engineering
Demonstrated success hiring senior, staff, principal-level engineers, and engineering managers in competitive, constrained talent markets
Strong technical aptitude to understand complex engineering roles, evaluate technical qualifications, and translate technical requirements into sourcing signals and candidate evaluation criteria
Expert-level proficiency with boolean search techniques and advanced sourcing methods, including x-ray searches, GitHub/repository mining, conference/publication tracking, and creative talent identification strategies
Proficiency with SeekOut, Gem, LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, Greenhouse, and AI tooling
Expertise in market mapping and talent pool analysis
Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
Strong pipeline management capabilities across multiple requisitions
Proven track record sourcing developers, full-stack engineers, and feature development candidates
Ability to track, analyze, and report sourcing metrics and translate insights into strategy adjustments
US-based work authorization/location requirement

Benefits

Comp & perks

Benefits offered, unspecified
Reasonable accommodations during the interview process