What you'll be doing

• Build and lead a team of highly-engaged engineers by hiring, coaching, and instilling a sense of ownership and mission.
• Oversee the vision and roadmap for the ML Platform team: work within the team and with partner teams to develop platform, infrastructure, and tooling to support high-scale ML-driven personalization, search, and safety systems.
• Manage processes and use your technical expertise to ensure that the Machine Learning and Data Science teams at Discord are high leverage and set-up to achieve extraordinary results.
• Democratize the usage of machine learning at Discord over time.
• Work with other Engineering Managers to improve the Engineering organization and uphold our workplace philosophy.

What you should have

• You have 7+ years of deep experience as a Software Engineer.
• You have 3+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager and have successfully managed a team of at least 10+ Software Engineers, including other Engineering Managers.
• You're a mentor, storyteller, and you're great at coordinating with a variety of teams throughout the company.
• You have extensive experience leading complex technical projects in dynamic environments with successful outcomes.
• Experience building, deploying, and operating large-scale machine learning systems from training to serving to model iteration: it makes you uncomfortable deploying something for end-users without considering key performance metrics, monitors and dashboards, graceful degradation, feature flags, etc.
• You are passionate about coaching and leading other engineers, but remain highly technical.
• You keep up with the industry trends and identify new tools to use to solve technical problems.

Bonus Points

• Experience with the unique challenges of working in a fast-moving start-up environment
• Experience with large-scale personalization, search, or content moderation systems
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (Google Cloud, AWS, etc) and Kubernetes/Docker
• Experience with open source and managed data products like Kafka, Spark, Flink, Cassandra/Scylla, Hadoop, Airflow, etc.
• Experience with infrastructure management tooling like Terraform and build systems

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Benefits and Perks - Eligible to Fulltime Employees

• 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)
• Generous stipends for headphones, your remote work setup, and lunch on a daily basis (while we’re all remote) 
• 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!

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