Staff Software Engineer- Experimentation Platform

This position is US based only.

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.

As Discord scales rapidly, the Experimentation Platform puts data at the heart of its decision-making and growth by enabling rapid and accurate product experimentation. We develop and operate an end-to-end platform that is leveraged by our Machine Learning, Analytics, Engineering, and Product partners. We are a small and growing team; by joining us as an early team member, you will be presented with significant leadership opportunities as we evolve.

We are seeking an experienced Staff Software Engineer to tech-lead the development of Discord's next-generation experimentation platform, including potentially rebuilding parts of the platform from scratch to take it to the next level. You will lead and mentor engineers, fostering their growth and enhancing their skills. To learn more about Discord Engineering in general, read our engineering blog here. If the above sounds exciting to you, read on!

What you'll be doing

• Design, build, potentially re-build, and support Discord's next generation experimentation platform: scope of work would include core services, data pipelines, configuration tooling, and UX.
• Collaborate with external stakeholders and customers throughout the company to ensure experiments are well run, and their results are accurately understood.
• Understand and influence product telemetry practices to support experimentation needs.

You'll Thrive in This Role If...

• You have 7+ years of experience as a Software Engineer and/or have an educational background in a quantitative field such as Computer Science, Physics, Applied Math, or Statistics.
• Prior experience working on an Experimentation Platform team is required; experience building core parts of experimentation platform from scratch is a huge plus.
• You have strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with leaders in product, data science, and engineering.
• You thrive in ambiguous environments where the best way forward is unclear, and get excited about figuring out solutions to complex problems, and then executing on them.
• You have experience building and deploying large-scale distributed systems in a cloud computing environment.
• You are proficient in Python and SQL. Knowledge of Typescript is a plus.
• Experience with a variety of datastore, e.g. relational, NoSQL, data …