Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning Platform

Summary

Join us in making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games on Discord's platform. As a Machine Learning Engineer, you will design and build the platform ML engineers and data scientists use to understand and delight Discord's users and keep them safe.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience working as a software engineer in data or backend with exposure to large datasets or distributed systems
• 4+ years working on platforms or infrastructure
• 2+ years working on machine learning platforms
• Know-how with orchestration systems (such as Airflow, Dagster, or Argo)
• You've put machine learning models into production

Responsibilities

• Design and build the platform ML engineers and data scientists use to understand and delight Discord's users and keep them safe
• Evaluate and integrate new machine learning frameworks and tools to ensure that Discord keeps up with the fast moving world of ML, including LLMs and generative AI
• Collaborate with model builders to ensure we have a smooth path from idea to production
• Set best practices in machine learning at Discord
• Create foundational datasets and models