Job Title : Staff Software Engineer, Personalization
Location : Remote in San Francisco, CA 94107+2 locations
Company : Discord
Salary :
Open Date : 2023-02-16
Close Date : 2023-06-16

At Discord, we believe everyone can find a place where they belong. Our team’s 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. We are looking for a strong technical leader to help build our Personalization team out and work across Product Engineering, Machine Learning Engineering, Design, Data Science, Infrastructure, and other organizations to achieve those goals. Come help us make Discord a welcome place for anyone and everyone. What you'll be doing Collaborate with engineers across our product and ML squads to build and iterate on new personalization products Partner with our ML Engineering and Platform teams to shape the future of ML products at Discord Take on critical technical challenges as we start to scale out our ML products to all servers Own major, complex initiatives that are essential to both our team’s and Discord’s success Develop a deep expertise for our personalized products and use that knowledge to help set the strategy and priorities for the team Work with other staff engineers across Discord to maintain a high technical bar for all of our systems and products Coach and mentor engineers across our teams to help them level up and grow into the challenges we’re taking on What you should have Full-stack experience. Our team need expertise on everything from user-facing features, our core infrastructure, and how we work with ML infrastructure to deliver on our goals. Technical leadership. We need someone who can step up and guide the technical direction of the team working in a space that is technically challenging and complicated across ML, Product, and Infrastructure. This means developing deep expertise as well as leveling up other engineers on the team. A builder’s mindset. This team is in its early days and has the opportunity to shape the direction of our products and infrastructure however we need to in order to succeed. Deep curiosity. Asking how things work and digging in is essential to understanding how we can personalize Discord for users, especially at scale. User empathy. At the end of the day, we can only be successful by making sure we are building products that bring joy and value to our users. Comfort in chaos. A lot of our work is exploratory and requires being comfortable working with new systems or having minimal prior work to build on top of. Critical thinking. We have a lot of opportunities ahead of us, but we need engineers who can help make hard decisions both on what we should do and what we shouldn’t. New York City residents only: Minimum salary of $214,000/year + equity and benefits*Note: Disclosure as required by NYC Pay Transparency Law.Colorado residents only: Minimum salary of $171,200/year + equity and benefits*Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085(8-5-20). #LI-HYBRID Benefits and Perks Comprehensive medical insurance including Health, Dental and Vision (plus up to $20,000 for gender affirmation procedures) Mental health resources and quarterly wellness stipends 16+ paid holidays, 4 weeks of PTO + use-what-you-need sick days Paid parental leave (plus fertility, adoption and other family planning benefits) Flexible long-term work options (remote and hybrid) Volunteer time off A diverse slate of Employee Resource Groups Plus commuter contributions and other perks for office-based employees About Us Discord is a voice, video and text app that helps friends and communities come together to hang out and explore their interests — from artists and activists, to study groups, sneakerheads, plant parents, and more. With 150 million monthly users across 19 million active communities, called servers, Discord has grown to become one of the most popular communications services in the world. Discord was built without selling ads or user data and instead, offers a premium subscription called Nitro that gives users special perks like higher quality streams and fun customizations. We’re working toward an inclusive world where no one feels like an outsider, where genuine human connection is a click, text chat, or voice call away. A place where everyone can find belonging. Challenging? Heck yes. Rewarding? Double heck yes. It’s a mission that gives us the chance to positively impact millions of people all over the world. So if this strikes a chord with you, come build belonging with us!