Staff Software Engineer, Experimentation Platform

About the role

Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does: play video games. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games. 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. Discor

Requirements

• You have built internal tools, and are familiar with A/B testing and statistical frameworks.
• You have experience with experimentation tooling; experience building core parts of experimentation platforms from scratch is a huge plus.
• 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 with Typescript or Rust is a plus.
• 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.