Staff Software Engineer, Experimentation Platform

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Staff Software Engineer, Experimentation Platform in USA

Discord
Full time
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USA
08/19/2026
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San Francisco, CA

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.

Salary: $248k - $279k/yr

Discord

Discord is used by over 200 million people every month for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does on our platform: play video games. Over 90% of our users play games, spending a combined 1.5 billion hours playing thousands of unique titles on Discord each month. D...

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