Discord

Staff Software Engineer, Experimentation Platform

Discord
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2 months ago

Base Salary

$248k - $279k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and support Discord’s next-generation experimentation platform.
  • Develop core services, data pipelines, configuration tooling, statistical analysis tools, and UX.
  • Collaborate with external stakeholders and customers across the company, including non-technical partners.
  • Understand and influence product telemetry practices to support experimentation needs.
  • Build high-scale data systems and user experiences supporting internal teams and product features used by millions of users.
  • Enable experimentation on product features, machine learning models, and other initiatives.
  • Lead and mentor engineers while fostering their professional growth.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience as a full-stack software engineer.
  • Experience building internal tools and familiarity with A/B testing and statistical frameworks.
  • Experience with experimentation tooling; building core parts of experimentation platforms from scratch is a strong plus.
  • Extensive experience leading complex technical projects from high-level goals through shippable solutions.
  • Experience building systems with strong data governance controls that respect privacy and security principles.
  • Proficiency in Python and SQL; TypeScript or Rust experience is a plus.
  • Experience with relational, NoSQL, and data warehouse solutions.
  • Strong product sense, communication skills, and cross-functional collaboration abilities.
  • Track record of developing engineers at multiple levels and bringing new techniques to technical problems.
  • Bonus qualifications include experience with human-in-the-loop AI systems, AI product evaluation, Google Cloud Platform or AWS, modern data processing stacks, full-stack or product engineering, statistics, data science, or large-scale data processing.

Benefits

  • Equity and benefits are provided.
  • The role is a full-time position based in the United States.
Discord

About Discord

5,001-10,000 employees

Discord builds a voice, video, and text chat platform organized around servers for gaming and interest-based communities. It monetizes through Nitro subscriptions, server subscriptions, and digital goods, and offers a developer platform for bots and apps. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is privately held and used by over 200 million people monthly.

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