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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning

We'd love to work with someone like you. We care about creating a delightful experience: for people who use Discord and for ourselves.

Discord

Employee count: 51-200

Salary: 336k-378k USD

United States only

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. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games.

This individual in this role would be expected to create and drive impact across all of our ML Pillars, with a specific focus on Safety and Discovery.

Our Safety Machine Learning team deploys state-of-the-art detection systems to mitigate harmful behavior, illegal content, spam, and other adversarial abuse. We take ownership of the solutions we build from concept to deployment, working closely with product, engineering, and data science teams to drive large-scale impact.

In our Discovery teams, we are applying Machine Learning to unlock impactful and new possibilities that drive user engagement, growth, understanding and personalization.

We’re seeking technical, mission-driven Machine Learning Engineers to design and implement end-to-end ML solutions that make Discord safer and help our users navigate the myriad of wonderful content across the platform. If this excites you, keep reading!

What You'll Be Doing

  • Build new and iterate on existing ML-driven products to foster creativity, discovery and engagement on Discord.
  • Use your technical expertise to design and build robust, high-scale, low latency content and user recommendation systems that power product features used by tens of millions of users every day.
  • Work with XFN partner teams to create ML-driven roadmaps and make the appropriate trade-off decision on development velocity vs system complexity during each phase of the products.

What you should have

  • 10+ years of experience as a Machine Learning Engineer or Data Scientist.
  • Extensive experience building performant machine learning systems at scale and have driven execution from ideation to production implementation.
  • Strong product sense, and you’re passionate about applications that are driven by user feedback and end user experiences.
  • Experience communicating updates and resolutions to customers and other partners to lead large and complex technical projects cross-functionally.
  • The ability to thrive in ambiguous environments, and are excited about figuring out solutions to complex problems.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $336,000 to $378,000 + 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. 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!

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Experience level

Senior

Salary

Salary: 336k-378k USD

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About Discord

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We'd love to work with someone like you.

We care about creating a delightful experience: for people who use Discord and for ourselves. We value a workplace that's as diverse as our product. People here do work that matters. We keep moving forward with a figure-it-out mentality. And above all, we remember to work with empathy, kindness, and compassion.

All of our values help us make a better product, better decisions, and foster a better work environment. As we continue to grow, we stay dedicated to building a company that is representative of the world we live and play in. We'd love your help.

Top-tier perks and benefits:

Stay healthy

We take care of our team with comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans.

Parental perks

Spend some quality time with the next generation with parental leave, fertility, adoption, and surrogacy benefits.

Kick back

Stay refreshed with over 13 paid holidays, use-what-you-need sick days, and four weeks of PTO.

Commute easy

Up to $270 per month for your commuting and parking needs.

The loadout

Awesome daily, catered lunches and snacks. A desk fund to make your space yours. Whatever you need for your computer setup, including a headphone allowance.

Workout on us

A wellness allowance for your gym membership or other wellness activites. Yoga in the office every week.

Transgender benefits

Discord will reimburse up to $10,000 for any procedure related to transition that is not covered by medical insurance.

Discord HQ

Our office is located in Potrero Hill, a little neighborhood in SF near awesome coffee, food, and Whole Foods. Also sushi.

Relocation

Excellent relocation bonuses for new hires moving to San Francisco.

If you're wanting to work with a motivated team on something that gives millions of users a space to find belonging, check out the four values of working at Discord on our blog. For all roles, we're hiring people to join us in our beautiful San Francisco office, and for select, indicated positions, we're currently open to having people join our team remotely in these states:

Arizona - California - Colorado - Florida - Georgia - Illinois - Maryland - Michigan - Nevada - New Jersey - New York - North Carolina - Oregon - Pennsylvania - Texas - Virginia - Washington

Employee benefits

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Stay healthy

We take care of our team with comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans.

Commute easy

In a non-COVID world, get up to $270 per month for your commuting and parking needs.

Kick back

Stay refreshed with over 19 paid holidays, use-what-you-need sick days, and four weeks of PTO.

Parental perks

Spend some quality time with the next generation with parental leave, fertility, adoption, and surrogacy benefits.

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Discord

Company size

51-200 employees

Founded in

2015

Chief executive officer

Jason Citron

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