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 position is US based only.
We're looking for an impact-focused Staff Engineer to join our world-class Revenue group as an E-commerce specialist as we accelerate Discord’s growth by enabling sophisticated e-commerce browsing and content promotion experiences. These product lines allow us to grow our business while keeping Discord’s core functionality free. To learn more about Discord Engineering, take a look at our engineering blog!
What You'll Be Doing
- Act as a technical leader and domain expert on e-commerce product catalog data modeling that will enable us to build world-class shopping experiences, content recommendations, and promotions that serve low latency content to our Shop UIs.
- Be a strategic partner with engineering, product, and cross functional leadership to advise and chart out pathways to scaling revenue operations and business lines.
- Partner with Product, Design, CX, Data Science, and feature teams across the company to evolve Discord’s commerce platform and expand its capabilities.
- Provide feature teams with tools and platform support needed to spin up new monetization products.
- Improve the reliability, observability, and stability of Discord’s commerce systems.
What you should have
- Deep domain expertise in the e-commerce platform world: product catalogs, content management, marketplaces, pricing, promotional offers, and discounts.
- Experience at scale by working on high throughput, low latency systems that power our commerce flows.
- Backend and data experience. We work across multiple stacks for web, desktop, and mobile, but this role will primarily be backend focused. You should have deep experience with platforms, tools and frameworks similar to Python Flask, GCP, Postgres, BigQuery, analytics tools such as Looker and Mode, and observability tools like Datadog.
- A growth mindset. You view mistakes as learning opportunities and build upon your successes. You challenge yourself and those around you to continuously improve.
- A focus on impact. You have a sharp eye for what changes can bring a product from good to great. You collaborate closely with product managers, designers, analysts, and other engineers to define great solutions to business problems.
- A sense of ownership. You believe in solving a problem completely rather than simply shipping a solution. You operate autonomously and follow through on your commitments.
- A love of mentorship of fellow engineers, providing feedback and guidance on system architecture, API design, data modeling, and tradeoffs.
- 8+ years of experience, 4+ in relevant roles.
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The US base salary range for this full-time position is $248,000 - $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. 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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Discord San Francisco, California, USA Office
Our platform is our headquarters! Because we believe great work isn’t tied to a physical space, most of our roles offer flexibility – whether it’s from the comfort of your home (in approved locations), an inspiring office setting or a combo of both!
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