Staff Software Engineer, Experimentation Platform

DiscordNorth AmericaLead7+ years experienceSoftware Engineering

The role

Discord is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to lead its next-generation experimentation platform, including AI-assisted experimentation workflows. The platform lets teams across Discord test product hypotheses with data.

What you will do

  • Design, build and support the experimentation platform: core services, data pipelines, configuration tooling, statistical tools and UX
  • Work with stakeholders across the company, some of them non-technical
  • Influence product telemetry practices to support experimentation
  • Build high-scale data systems and internal tools used by many teams
  • Lead and mentor engineers

What they ask for

  • 7+ years as a full-stack software engineer
  • Experience building internal tools and knowing A/B testing and statistical frameworks
  • Experience with experimentation tooling; building core platform parts from scratch is a big plus
  • Record of leading complex technical projects to a shippable result
  • Experience with data governance, privacy and security controls
  • Proficiency in Python and SQL; TypeScript or Rust is a plus
  • Experience with relational, NoSQL and data warehouse datastores
  • Strong product sense and cross-functional communication

What they offer

  • Equity

This is our own short reading of the posting. The full description, and anything that has changed since, is on Discord's careers page behind the apply button.

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