Discord
Staff Software Engineer, Experimentation Platform
Remote (U.S.) · Staff+ · Full-time
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About the role
- Discord is a rapidly scaling company that puts Data at the heart of its decision-making and future growth.
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and support Discord's next generation experimentation platform: scope of work would include core services, data pipelines, configuration tooling, statistical analysis tools and UX.
- Understand and influence product telemetry practices to support experimentation needs.
- Use your technical expertise to build delightful user experience and high-scale data systems that power internal teams and product features used by many millions of users every day
- A track record of developing engineers at multiple levels, and a habit of tracking industry trends to bring new techniques to technical problems.
- Experience building human-in-the-loop AI systems and AI product evaluation.
- Collaborate with external (sometimes non-technical) stakeholders and customers throughout the company
Requirements
- You have 7+ years of experience as a full-stack SWE
- Experience with cloud-computing platforms such as Google Cloud Platform or AWS.
- Experience with modern data processing stacks.
- You have built internal tools, and are familiar with A/B testing and statistical frameworks.
- You have extensive experience leading complex technical projects with successful outcomes
- you can take a high-level goal and achieve a shippable solution
- You have built systems with strong data governance controls that respect privacy and security principles.
- You have experience with experimentation tooling; experience building core parts of experimentation platforms from scratch is a huge plus.
Nice to have
- You have experience with experimentation tooling
- You are proficient in Python and SQL.
- Experience with Typescript or Rust is a plus.
Compensation
- The US base salary range for this full-time position is $248,000 to $279,000 + equity + benefits.
- Our salary ranges are determined by role and level.
- Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits.
Benefits
- Deliver business results by collaborating with stakeholders across Discord to experiment on features, machine learning models and more.
Company info
- Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games.
- At Discord, we believe everyone can find a place where they belong.
- Our mission is to help make it easy for everyone to find and join meaningful conversations and to make every part of our product feel smart and delightful.
- Strong product sense and communication skills - you understand your customers and work well cross-functionally.
- We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests, and helps developers build and grow their businesses.
- Join us in our mission!
This listing is sourced directly from Discord's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.