Staff Software Engineer, Experimentation Platform

About the role

Discord is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the development of its next-generation experimentation platform, including AI-assisted workflows. You will design and build core services, data pipelines, and statistical tools while mentoring engineers and fostering their professional growth. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to drive data-informed product improvements at scale.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and support the next-generation experimentation platform including core services, data pipelines, and configuration tooling.
• Collaborate with non-technical stakeholders and customers across the company.
• Influence product telemetry practices to support experimentation requirements.
• Build high-scale data systems and user experiences that power internal teams.
• Deliver business results by experimenting on features and machine learning models.
• Lead and mentor engineers to enhance their technical skills and career growth.

Required skills

• Full-stack development
• Internal tools
• A/B testing
• Statistical frameworks
• Experimentation tooling
• Data governance
• Python
• SQL
• System design

Nice to have

• Typescript
• Rust
• Human-in-the-loop AI
• AI product evaluation
• Google Cloud Platform
• AWS
• Data processing stacks
• Data science

About the Company

Discord is a multiplatform, multigenerational, and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests. The company is focused on making it easy for everyone to find and join meaningful conversations.