Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Discord is a gaming-focused communication platform that uses experimentation and data-informed decision-making to improve its product. The Staff Software Engineer will lead the development of the next-generation experimentation platform, including core services, data pipelines, statistical analysis tools, UX, and AI-assisted experimentation workflows, while mentoring engineers and collaborating cross-functionally.
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
- Collaborate with external (sometimes non-technical) stakeholders and customers throughout the company
- 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
- Deliver business results by collaborating with stakeholders across Discord to experiment on features, machine learning models and more
Skills
- You have 7+ years of experience as a full-stack SWE
- You have built internal tools, and are familiar with A/B testing and statistical frameworks
- You have experience with experimentation tooling
- 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 are proficient in Python and SQL
- Experience and with and/or exposure to a variety of datastores (relational, NoSQL, data warehouse solutions)
- Strong product sense and communication skills - you understand your customers and work well cross-functionally
- 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 core parts of experimentation platforms from scratch is a huge plus
- Experience with Typescript or Rust is a plus
- Experience building human-in-the-loop AI systems and AI product evaluation
- Experience with cloud-computing platforms such as Google Cloud Platform or AWS
- Experience with modern data processing stacks
- Full-stack development or product engineering experience
- Deep understanding of statistics, data science, or large scale data processing
Benefits
- Equity
- Remote work arrangement
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