Careers at Discord

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. The Developer Success team is building the tools for game developers to make that happen by harnessing the power of Discord in their games and in their communities. We believe that gaming is better when playing with your friends and aim to foster better and deeper relationships through that. This is also reflected in how we work! Our engineering culture believes that great teams are built through collaboration and trust. Come and join us! What You’ll Be Doing Delivering high-quality, high-impact projects that unlock new capabilities for game developers. This could include anything from our APIs, the Discord app, developer portal, realtime infrastructure, or even our C++ SDKs. Whatever it takes to get the important thing done. Collaborating with the other engineers on your team to write, review, and ship elegant and scalable code. You take pride in the fact that your code will be used by millions and millions of people! Leading projects through the whole life cycle: from gathering requirements, breaking down milestones into smaller pieces, building, then shipping the thing. Listening and working with our game developer partners to better understand their needs in order to improve our tools. This could mean hopping into partner meetings with our Solutions Engineers or working with our DevRel team to answer their questions. Working with product managers, designers, and partner managers to cut through ambiguity and find the way forward. Maintaining performance and reliability standards for our features. Using your attention to detail to continually raise the quality bar of the software we write. What you should have: 5+ years professional experience as a software engineer. Experience with some parts of our tech stack. This is mainly Python and Typescript/React, but could include Elixir, Rust, or C++. You are comfortable switching across stacks or learning new ones. Experience building software that leverages large data based applications. Data plays a huge part in the work that we do and how we support our developer partners. You have a sense for product and design. We don’t operate in silos, and you’ll be collaborating closely with cross-functional peers. You should be able to express opinions and collaborate to make something great. A holistic approach to problem solving. You believe in solving a problem from first principles rather than simply shipping a solution. You learn from your mistakes and work through obstacles with the rest of the team. You actively leverage AI coding tools to accelerate your productivity. Bonus Points Experience working with scale. Experience with mobile development. Direct experience leveraging a cloud platform (eg GCP, Amazon, or Azure) to serve as the backend infrastructure for a product. Bonus bonus points: Experience with game development. The US base salary range for this full-time position is $196,000 to $220,500 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits. Why Discord? Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests, and helps developers build and grow their businesses. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Your future is just a click away! Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process. We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know. Please see our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy for details regarding Discord’s collection and usage of personal information relating to the application and recruitment process by clicking HERE.

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. The Realtime Infrastructure team is responsible for building and maintaining some of Discord’s highest scale and most critical services. Those systems are at the core of our text chat infrastructure and facilitate the dispatching of every update to our users sessions. This role will have a significant impact on Discord’s overall reliability and performance. It will also help our product teams build new features on top of our infrastructure. This team is small but critical, and its work has a direct impact on Discord's success and ability to scale. This role reports to the Senior Engineering Manager of Realtime Infrastructure. What You'll Be Doing Build and operate large-scale, reliable and performant distributed systems. Collaborate with product teams to create new features. Ensure Discord “just works”. Write code but also manage our infrastructure. Work with a talented team of engineers who have built one of the largest communication platforms in the world. What you should have 2+ years of experience writing and designing backend systems. Experience solving complex distributed system problems. Experience operating and maintaining critical tier 0 services. Knowledge of monitoring and alerting best practices. Familiar with open source software, and not afraid to dig into the source code of a library to find the answer you’re looking for. Bonus Points Experience with Elixir or Rust. Experience working with systems deployed in a cloud environment (GCP, AWS, etc.) Knowledge of devops tools like Salt,Terraform or k8s. You have built or contributed to open source projects. You are a Discord power user and have built bots or apps interacting with our platform. Candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties). Relocation assistance may be available. T he US base salary range for this full-time position is $180,000 to $220,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits. Why Discord? Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests, and helps developers build and grow their businesses. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Your future is just a click away! Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process. We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know. Please see our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy for details regarding Discord’s collection and usage of personal information relating to the application and recruitment process by clicking HERE.

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. Keeping our platform safe requires infrastructure that is accurate, scalable, and fair and the engineering challenges that come with that are genuinely hard. Our Safety Engineering teams build and operate the systems that power content moderation, enforcement, and safety signal processing at scale. Our team developed Osprey , the open-source investigation and incident response tool that allows safety teams to understand what is happening on their platforms and take actions at scale. Osprey has since been open-sourced and donated to ROOST , reflecting our commitment to industry-wide safety improvements. We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer who thrives on complex, ambiguous problems and can take full ownership of critical infrastructure from design through post-launch iteration. What You'll Be Doing Own complex safety infrastructure projects end-to-end, from initial design through post-launch monitoring and iteration Build and maintain production systems that operate at massive scale, participating in on-call rotations Apply an adversarial mindset to your work — thinking through security, abuse scenarios, edge cases, and scalability concerns Collaborate closely with Trust & Safety, ML, Policy, and product teams to understand requirements and deliver effective solutions Break down large, multi-milestone projects into prioritized work streams while managing stakeholders and dependencies across teams Contribute to technical design discussions and write RFCs; help establish best practices and maintain a high quality bar through code reviews and mentorship What You Should Have 5+ years of professional software engineering experience focused on backend services and/or infrastructure Strong programming skills in Python; we work occasionally in Rust and TypeScript as well Experience building and operating distributed systems and production services at scale such as GCP or AWS Strong debugging skills and ability to navigate complex, multi-service codebases Excellent collaboration and communication skills, including experience working with cross-functional partners A quality-centered mindset with attention to the right details at every stage of development Bonus Points Experience with content moderation, trust & safety, or related problem domains Experience with ML/LLM integration Experience with observability tooling, metrics, and monitoring systems at scale A strong passion for Discord and making online communities safer This position is US-based only. We are seeking candidates located in the Los Angeles or San Francisco Bay Areas. Candidates in the Los Angeles area can work remotely. Candidates in the San Francisco area are required to be in the office 2 days per week. Relocation assistance may be available to the San Francisco Bay Area. Candidates must be located within one of the following counties: Los Angeles area: (Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, or Ventura Counties) San Francisco Bay Area: (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties) The US base salary range for this full-time position is $220,500 to $269,500 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits. Why Discord? Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests, and helps developers build and grow their businesses. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Your future is just a click away! Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process. We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know. Please see our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy for details regarding Discord’s collection and usage of personal information relating to the application and recruitment process by clicking HERE.

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. Keeping our platform safe requires infrastructure that is accurate, scalable, and fair and the engineering challenges that come with that are genuinely hard. Our Safety Engineering teams build and operate the systems that power content moderation, enforcement, and safety signal processing at scale. Our team developed Osprey , the open-source investigation and incident response tool that allows safety teams to understand what is happening on their platforms and take actions at scale. Osprey has since been open-sourced and donated to ROOST , reflecting our commitment to industry-wide safety improvements. We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer who thrives on complex, ambiguous problems and can take full ownership of critical infrastructure from design through post-launch iteration. What You'll Be Doing Own complex safety infrastructure projects end-to-end, from initial design through post-launch monitoring and iteration Build and maintain production systems that operate at massive scale, participating in on-call rotations Apply an adversarial mindset to your work — thinking through security, abuse scenarios, edge cases, and scalability concerns Collaborate closely with Trust & Safety, ML, Policy, and product teams to understand requirements and deliver effective solutions Break down large, multi-milestone projects into prioritized work streams while managing stakeholders and dependencies across teams Contribute to technical design discussions and write RFCs; help establish best practices and maintain a high quality bar through code reviews and mentorship What You Should Have 5+ years of professional software engineering experience focused on backend services and/or infrastructure Strong programming skills in Python; we work occasionally in Rust and TypeScript as well Experience building and operating distributed systems and production services at scale such as GCP or AWS Strong debugging skills and ability to navigate complex, multi-service codebases Excellent collaboration and communication skills, including experience working with cross-functional partners A quality-centered mindset with attention to the right details at every stage of development Bonus Points Experience with content moderation, trust & safety, or related problem domains Experience with ML/LLM integration Experience with observability tooling, metrics, and monitoring systems at scale A strong passion for Discord and making online communities safer This position is US-based only. We are seeking candidates located in the Los Angeles or San Francisco Bay Areas. Candidates in the Los Angeles area can work remotely. Candidates in the San Francisco area are required to be in the office 2 days per week. Relocation assistance may be available to the San Francisco Bay Area. Candidates must be located within one of the following counties: Los Angeles area: (Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, or Ventura Counties) San Francisco Bay Area: (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties) The US base salary range for this full-time position is $220,500 to $269,500 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits. Why Discord? Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests, and helps developers build and grow their businesses. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Your future is just a click away! Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process. We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know. Please see our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy for details regarding Discord’s collection and usage of personal information relating to the application and recruitment process by clicking HERE.

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. More broadly, Discord is about empowering people to find belonging in all kinds of communities, and those people trust us to keep their communications safe. Our Platform Security Engineering team protects the systems we use to create Discord, making the "secure way" the "easy way." We're looking for a Senior Engineer to advance this mission through security expertise, software development, and operational excellence, with a particular focus on identity and access management: who and what can access Discord's systems, how they authenticate, and how access stays scoped to what's actually needed. You'll help identify leveraged opportunities to reduce security risk across Engineering, then design and deliver technical solutions: lovable "paved paths" for managing identities and access, shipping code, configuring cloud infrastructure, and operating services. If you're a security engineer with a deep interest in identity and access management, who's eager to own technically and socially complex projects, and excited to improve security and privacy at Discord, read on! This position is based in our San Francisco office. For this role, the Hiring Manager would like folks to be in the office 1-2 days a week. What you'll do Own software engineering projects end-to-end on a highly autonomous, horizontally integrated team with a lot of leverage. This is a code-forward role! Define what identity means for autonomous agents and other non-human actors at Discord (how they're provisioned, scoped, authenticated, authorized, and audited). As the role of these actors grows, and create primitives to implement that vision. Build and evolve Access , Discord's employee authorization platform, to make permissions discoverable, role-based, least privilege, and self-serve; check out our blog post to learn more! Design and harden our Zero Trust architecture, spanning human and service-to-service auth*n for Discord’s internal tooling. Automate continuous permission right-sizing in the spirit of least privilege. Develop and apply secure baselines for cloud identity, and help secure our software supply chain from the dev environment through CI/CD and into production. Consult on risk assessments, architectural designs, threat models, code reviews, and more, pragmatically balancing security with other business considerations. Example projects Integrate service-to-service and agent-to-service authentication and authorization as out-of-the-box features in Discord's internal developer platform. Build out service identity provisioning using PKI and mTLS, so services can authenticate each other without shared secrets. Evaluate or extend infrastructure access tooling such as Teleport for short-lived, auditable access to hosts, databases, and internal systems. Improve how secrets are issued, rotated, and scoped across our infrastructure. What we look for 5+ years of experience building and operating production systems or infrastructure 3+ years of experience writing software in a general-purpose programming language (we mainly use Python, TypeScript, and Rust) 3+ years of experience securing systems with millions of users Experience building or operating identity and access management systems: authentication, authorization, or access control at scale Understanding of modern authentication and authorization concepts (e.g. RBAC, OAuth, OIDC, SSO, Zero Trust network architectures, mTLS, cloud IAM) Experience building in and securing multi-cloud environments (e.g. GCP, Cloudflare, AWS) Experience designing and building software for customers (internal or external) beyond your immediate team Bonus points if you have… Experience defining and orchestrating containers (e.g. via Kubernetes, Docker, Distroless, OCI) Familiarity with build and CI/CD technologies (e.g. Terraform, Bazel, Buildkite) Provisioned or managed service and workload identity using PKI, including issuing and operating mTLS between services Experience with Zero Trust platforms such as Cloudflare Access and Teleport, for auditable access to apps, hosts, and internal systems Experience with secrets management systems (e.g. Vault, or a cloud KMS or secrets manager), including rotation and least-privilege access to secrets Developed and debugged distributed systems atop GCP, Cloudflare, and/or AWS Led complex migrations or risk management programs across an engineering organization Built or operated a service mesh (e.g. Envoy, Istio) Managed and secured VMs or bare-metal hosts (e.g. Linux, Salt) Practices to discover industry tools and knowledge that can multiply your team's impact The US base salary range for this full-time position is $196,000 to $245,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits. Why Discord? Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests, and helps developers build and grow their businesses. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Your future is just a click away! Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process. We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know. Please see our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy for details regarding Discord’s collection and usage of personal information relating to the application and recruitment process by clicking HERE.

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. Discord is looking for an experienced, proactive, and self-driven Senior Data Scientist to join our Experimentation Platform team. The Experimentation Platform puts data at the heart of the company’s decision-making and growth by enabling rapid and accurate product experimentation. Discord runs hundreds of experiments on any given day, turning experiment results into business decisions. As a Data Scientist on this team, you will ensure that the statistical underpinnings of our experiments are sound, that experimenters are able to design experiments with high rigor, and that Discord makes the best business decisions on the basis of these experiments. We are a small and quickly growing team; you will be presented with significant leadership opportunities as we evolve. Our team directly impacts the strategy and roadmaps that improve Discord for its more than 90M daily active users! If helping make Discord an even better place to hang out with your friends sounds like an exciting challenge - we'd love to chat with you! Check out our blog about how our team informs strategy & innovation at Discord here! What You'll Be Doing Collaborate closely with engineering and product teams to improve the reliability and scalability of experimentation at Discord. Provide statistical expertise, ensuring that all statistical choices, methodologies, and frameworks are sound and aligned with best practices in causal inference and experimental design. Lead initiatives to educate and train cross-functional teams on best practices in experimentation design, statistical methodologies, and causal inference, ensuring a deep understanding of the principles that drive sound decision-making under uncertainty. Develop and deliver engaging workshops, training sessions, and educational materials that demystify complex statistical concepts and promote data-driven decision-making across the company. Empower our Data Science team (50+ members) to use more rigorous causal inference methods. In addition to consulting within the wider Data Science team (50+ members), lead and conduct causal inference research of your own on important Discord priorities. What you should have Proven experience in designing and validating statistical methodologies for experimentation platforms or similar systems, with a focus on ensuring the accuracy and reliability of experimental results. MSc in a quantitative field (e.g. Statistics, Economics, Political Science, Psychology, etc.) and 2+ years of experience designing, implementing and analyzing experiments or causal inference projects. Ability to critically evaluate and recommend statistical approaches and methodologies that enhance the integrity of experimentation frameworks. Strong passion for education and the ability to communicate complex statistical and experimental design concepts clearly and effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences. Demonstrated experience in developing and delivering training programs or educational content related to experimentation, causal inference, or statistical analysis, with a track record of fostering a culture of data literacy within an organization. Proficient with Python, SQL, R, and other statistical programming languages. Bonus Points PhD in a quantitative field Interest in conducting literature reviews, translating and championing best scientific practices to a wide range of functions across the company. Track record in using causal inference methods that translated into business decisions and outcomes. Passion for Discord or gaming. Causal inference related publications. The US base salary range for this full-time position is $220,500 to $245,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits. Why Discord? Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests, and helps developers build and grow their businesses. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Your future is just a click away! Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process. We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know. Please see our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy for details regarding Discord’s collection and usage of personal information relating to the application and recruitment process by clicking HERE.

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. We are seeking a QA/DevOps Engineer to join Discord’s Business Systems team. In this role, you will own automated test suite development and maintenance across Oracle ERP Cloud (Fusion) and Salesforce, with a focus on Tosca-based regression and progression testing. You will embed automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and partner closely with ERP Functional, Technical, and DevOps teams to ensure every release is tested consistently and defects are caught early. What you'll be doing Run Oracle ERP Cloud and Salesforce QA automation suites for all quarterly patch upgrades end-to-end. Review new Oracle and SFDC release features and recommend improvements to existing testing processes. Build and improve regression and progression test automation in the Tosca environment for Oracle Fusion and Salesforce. Create, maintain, and update Tosca scripts to reflect system and process changes across GL, AP, AR, and FAH modules. Lead feature enhancement reviews as part of quarterly patch assessment cycles and new enhancement projects. Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines; trigger regression suites automatically on every release candidate build. Maintain test infrastructure and environments in collaboration with DevOps and ERP Technical teams. Document test coverage, defect trends, and release readiness in Jira and shared reporting dashboards. Automation Use Cases FAH Process Automation: Auto-test Financial Accounting Hub on each new sales item addition to eliminate manual unit testing. AR Regression Suite: Automated flows for invoicing, receipts, and customer setup across every release. AP Regression Suite: Payment runs, supplier invoices, holds, and approvals tested automatically on each patch cycle. Salesforce Tosca Automation: Develop, maintain, and expand automated SFDC test suites in Tosca, integrated with release pipelines. What you should have 3-5+ years of QA automation experience. Hands-on Tosca experience for regression and progression test suite development and maintenance. Experience executing and maintaining automated test cycles for quarterly Oracle patch upgrades. Familiarity with Oracle ERP Cloud and SFDC release feature review and technical impact assessment. Experience integrating automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or equivalent). Familiarity with pipeline configuration: triggering regression runs on pull requests and release candidate builds. Working knowledge of version control (Git / GitHub or GitLab): branching, pull requests, and code review workflows. Basic scripting capability in Python, Shell, or PowerShell for test utility automation and pipeline support. Understanding of containerized test environments (Docker); experience running tests in ephemeral containers is a plus. Jira for defect tracking, test coverage reporting, and sprint participation. Experience writing and maintaining test documentation: test plans, test cases, regression logs, and release readiness summaries. Ability to work cross-functionally with ERP Functional Analysts, ERP Technical Developers, and DevOps engineers. Familiarity with SOX compliance, ITGC controls, and ERP change management practices. Preferred Qualifications Oracle Fusion certification or formal training in Oracle ERP Cloud modules. Experience with SaaS QA automation in a high-growth technology company environment. Exposure to OIC (Oracle Integration Cloud) or MuleSoft integration testing. Familiarity with Salesforce test automation frameworks beyond Tosca (Selenium, Provar, or equivalent). Prior experience working with AMS or managed services vendors in an ERP context. Knowledge of Oracle quarterly release cycles and technical impact assessments. Exposure to infrastructure-as-code or environment provisioning concepts (Terraform, Ansible). Candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties). Relocation assistance may be available. The US base salary range for this full-time position is $156,000 to $175,500 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits. Why Discord? Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests, and helps developers build and grow their businesses. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Your future is just a click away! Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process. We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know. Please see our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy for details regarding Discord’s collection and usage of personal information relating to the application and recruitment process by clicking HERE.

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. Discord is looking for a seasoned technical leader to join our Data team as a Staff Data Engineer. You will drive technical vision and strategy for our analytical data infrastructure which facilitates the transformation and semantic layer that powers clean, tested, well-documented datasets that the company can trust and self-serve from. The data your team builds won't just inform internal decisions, it will underpin the metrics we share with investors, partners, and the public, requiring exceptional rigor, auditability, and precision. This role works closely with Data Governance, Data Science, Product, Finance, and Engineering teams. This role reports to the Director of Data Engineering. What You'll Be Doing Define technical strategy and architectural direction for analytics data infrastructure, building and maintaining enterprise-scale curated datasets and data models Own the design and implementation of data governance programs end to end, by partnering with stakeholders and translating policy requirements into flexible and configurable infrastructure in partnership with Data Platform Engineering. Design and build sophisticated data abstractions and analytical frameworks using SQL, Python, and modern data stack technologies Develop data quality frameworks, monitoring, anomaly detection, and alerting at massive scale, with governance, lineage tracking, and change management rigor appropriate for externally reported numbers Drive adoption of consistent data modeling patterns, naming conventions, documentation norms, and metric governance standards across the data organization Lead cross-functional technical initiatives across product verticals and mentor engineers to accelerate delivery and harden data systems Navigate ambiguity and make sound technical decisions with incomplete information, balancing short-term delivery with long-term infrastructure investment What You Should Have 7+ years of experience in data and software engineering with a strong focus on building curated, consumer-facing datasets 7+ years of experience in designing, developing, and maintaining data infrastructure used by data teams at scale. Expert-level SQL and strong Python skills , with solid fundamentals in version control and CI/CD Proven experience implementing data quality audits, monitoring systems, and automated remediation for massive datasets Strong business acumen and communication skills, comfortable translating ambiguous business questions into concrete metric definitions and explaining complex implementations to audiences from engineering peers to executive leadership Track record of hands-on collaboration with Data Science, Finance, and Product teams Bonus Points: Passion for Discord or online communities Experience building or contributing to a semantic layer or metrics store Experience with modern analytics and data engineering tools and workflows (dbt, BigQuery, or similar) Experience defining and governing metric standards across a data organization Experience with reporting infrastructure subject to external audit or SOX compliance The US base salary range for this full-time position is $245,000 to $279,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits. Why Discord? Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests, and helps developers build and grow their businesses. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Your future is just a click away! Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process. We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know. Please see our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy for details regarding Discord’s collection and usage of personal information relating to the application and recruitment process by clicking HERE.

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. Discord's Experimentation Platform puts data at the heart of the company's decision-making and growth - we run hundreds of experiments at any given time, and those results turn directly into business decisions across Discord. As a Staff Data Scientist on this team, you will ensure that the statistical underpinnings of our experiments are sound, that experimenters are able to design experiments with high rigor, and that Discord makes the best business decisions on the basis of these experiments. We are a small and quickly growing team; you will be presented with significant leadership opportunities as we evolve. Our team directly impacts the strategy and roadmaps that improve Discord for its more than 90M daily active users! If helping make Discord an even better place to hang out with your friends sounds like an exciting challenge - we'd love to chat with you! What you will be doing Formulate the vision and set the roadmap for the future of the Experimentation Platform, in partnership with engineering, product, and data science stakeholders. Provide statistical expertise, ensuring that experimentation methodologies and frameworks are sound and aligned with best practices in causal inference and experimental design. Partner closely with engineering and product to improve the reliability, scalability, and adoption of experimentation across Discord - including modern AI/LLM tooling where it can accelerate rigor and speed. Lead initiatives to educate and train cross-functional teams - including workshops, training sessions, and educational materials - on experimentation design, statistical methodology, and causal inference. Empower Discord's Data Science team (50+ members) to adopt more rigorous causal inference methods. Lead and conduct original causal inference research on high-priority Discord questions, in partnership with the wider Data Science team. Engage directly with experimentation customers - data scientists, product managers, and engineers - to ensure the platform enables fast, reliable, data-driven decisions. What you should have Proven experience leading experimentation platform work, including designing and validating statistical methodologies to ensure the accuracy and reliability of experimental results. PhD in a quantitative field (e.g. Statistics, Economics, Political Science, Psychology) or equivalent practical experience, plus 4+ years designing, implementing, and analyzing experiments or causal inference projects. Ability to critically evaluate and recommend statistical approaches that balance velocity and reliability across a variety of product launches. Strong passion for education, with a track record of communicating complex statistical and experimental design concepts to technical and non-technical audiences and fostering a culture of data literacy. Demonstrated experience in developing and delivering training programs or educational content related to experimentation, causal inference, or statistical analysis, with a track record of fostering a culture of data literacy within an organization. Proficient with Python, SQL, R, and/or other statistical programming languages. Bonus Points Interest in conducting literature reviews, translating and championing best scientific practices across the company. Track record using causal inference methods that translated into business decisions and outcomes. Experience autonomously leading cross-functional projects and influencing cross-functional partners. Comfort using AI/LLM tools to accelerate causal inference workflows, automate repetitive analysis, or scale experimentation education content. Passion for Discord or gaming. Causal inference-related publications. San Francisco Bay Area: Candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties). Relocation assistance may be available. The US base salary range for this full-time position is $279,000 to $310,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits. Why Discord? Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests, and helps developers build and grow their businesses. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Your future is just a click away! Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process. We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know. Please see our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy for details regarding Discord’s collection and usage of personal information relating to the application and recruitment process by clicking HERE.

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. This team is where reports and signals become decisions. We build the LLM pipelines that review reported content, the systems that carry enforcement out, the appeals path users take when we get it wrong, and the tooling our investigators and content reviewers work in every day. Most safety reviews are now decided by automation instead of a person, at a cost per review that has fallen by more than 90% on mature workflows and at precision and recall above trained human reviewers. What's left to automate is the ambiguous, high-stakes end, and with appeals arriving by the hundreds of thousands, getting users a fast and fair answer matters as much as catching harm. We're hiring an Engineering Manager to lead the team: nine engineers across three squads, each with an experienced tech lead. One builds the automated review systems; another owns enforcement, warnings, and the infrastructure behind appeals; and the final owns tooling that enables analysts to be effective. You'll report to the Director of Engineering for Safety and work closely with our content review operations, machine learning, product, policy, and legal teams. The charter is larger than the current headcount, and we expect the role to grow with it. What you'll do Lead three squads, Review, Enforce, and Tooling through their tech leads, setting direction across automated review, enforcement, and appeals Push automation toward nearly all review decisions without giving up precision or recall against a human baseline, and get engineering out of the loop so the operations team can launch and tune workflows themselves Rebuild appeals: one path for every eligible appeal regardless of what triggered the original action, review tooling that scores decision quality rather than only flagging that two reviewers disagreed, and checks that catch mistakes before they land on good users Own the tooling our investigators depend on, cutting complex investigations from hours to minutes, and make enforcement traceable enough that anyone can see how a user reached their current state Carry regulatory and child-safety compliance work alongside the roadmap, set the engineering bar with your leads, and hire and grow the team Who you are 5+ years as a software engineer with a solid backend and distributed systems background, and 2+ years managing engineers You've shipped LLM systems in production where the output is a decision the business acts on rather than a suggestion, with opinions about evaluation, ground-truth data, quality regressions, and where cost and latency start to bite Technical enough to stay in the details. You can review a design, follow a hard incident, and disagree with an approach without taking the work away from senior engineers who know the system better than you do Experienced working alongside operations or human-in-the-loop teams. You understand quality assurance, reviewer calibration, and appeals, and you build tools that respect the people using them Steady under escalation. Legal deadlines, serious incidents, and regulator attention come with this job, and you can hold a quality line while shipping against a clock Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration across engineering, machine learning, data science, policy, legal, and product, and practical about throughput and unit economics An empathetic and experienced recruiter and coach. People you've managed want to work with you again Bonus Points A strong passion for Discord and/or gaming, and an appreciation for the communities we serve Trust and safety, fraud, integrity, or abuse engineering at a consumer platform Building internal tools where operations or review teams are the primary user Consolidating fragmented legacy systems onto a single platform, or managing outsourced operations teams and vendors Candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties). Relocation assistance may be available. The US base salary range for this full-time position is $279,000 to $341,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits. Why Discord? Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests, and helps developers build and grow their businesses. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Your future is just a click away! Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process. We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know. Please see our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy for details regarding Discord’s collection and usage of personal information relating to the application and recruitment process by clicking HERE.