Staff Software Engineer, Experimentation Platform

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.