Senior Software Engineer, Ads Measurement & Targeting

Discord•San Francisco, CA

4d•$196,000 - $245,000

About The Position

Discord is seeking a highly technical, creative, hands-on, and impact-focused Senior Software Engineer to join their growing Ads team. This team is revolutionizing user interaction through innovative ad formats like Quests, aiming to generate revenue by building a win-win-win suite of distribution tools for game developers, players, and Discord. The role involves designing, building, and maintaining new Ads products and infrastructure, collaborating with various engineering teams, and acting as a strategic partner in scaling digital advertising features. The ideal candidate will architect simple, maintainable systems, demonstrate strong ownership, and introduce best practices while continuously learning and teaching.

Requirements

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 growth mindset. You view mistakes as learning opportunities and build upon your successes. You challenge yourself and those around you to continuously improve.
A love of mentorship. Helping fellow engineers, providing feedback and guidance on system architecture, API design, data modeling, and tradeoffs.
4+ years of experience, with 2 years in relevant roles.

Nice To Haves

Expertise with Python and/or Rust, Typescript, React, React Native
Familiarity with experimentation and analysis
Contributions to open-source projects
Interest or passion for the Discord platform

Responsibilities

Design, build and maintain new Ads products and infrastructure from the backend to frontend.
Collaborate with both engineers on and off the team - from our Revenue Infrastructure and Core Tech teams to our Machine Learning and Data Science teams.
Be a strategic partner with engineering, product, and cross-functional leadership in designing, developing, and scaling digital advertising features that drive revenue growth and enhance user engagement.
Architect simple and maintainable systems to enable us to launch quickly and iterate while sustaining a high product and technical quality bar.
Model strong ownership by acting autonomously when possible and looping in others to build confidence on critical questions.
Introduce coding and operational best practices to the team; always be learning and teaching.
Own projects end to end — you’ll be responsible for working with Product and other stakeholders to refine requirements, creating technical designs and specs, implementing changes, and seeing projects through to launch and maintenance.