Salary Range : $160,000 – $180,000 + equity + benefits
Discord is looking for a Data Engineer to join its Data team and help build high-leverage data pipelines and foundational datasets that empower analytics, data science, modeling, experimentation, and product development.
This role directly shapes the way Discord understands product success, user behavior, and decision-making by ensuring clean, scalable, and performant data infrastructure .
What You’ll Be Doing
- Develop and maintain data pipelines to support analytics, modeling, and product decision-making
- Improve the coverage and reliability of instrumentation with engineering and data science partners
- Build and monitor audits and anomaly detection systems to ensure data quality
- Build dashboards and automated reports for business stakeholders
- Work cross-functionally with product teams, engineers, and data scientists
What You Should Have
- 2+ years of experience building data pipelines at scale
- 2+ years of developing and maintaining data models (structured & unstructured data)
- Strong skills in SQL and Python (production-grade data work)
- Experience with data quality validation at scale (billions of rows)
- Skilled in ETL optimization , pipeline cost reduction, and dashboard performance tuning
- Effective communicator, capable of thriving in ambiguous or rapidly changing environments
- Strong collaborative mindset and genuine curiosity about data and users
- Familiarity with or passion for Discord or online communities
- Experience owning and evolving domain-level data models
- Experience working closely with product engineers and data scientists
- Proficiency with BigQuery , Looker , Airflow , DBT (or equivalents)
- Experience with data infrastructure for experimentation or A/B testing
- Exposure to ads data pipelines or third-party data integration
- Equity : Included
- Benefits : Comprehensive health, wellness, and retirement plans
- Salary may be adjusted based on skills, experience, and education
Discord is a platform used by over 200 million people monthly—especially by gamers. The company is expanding into broader community building and needs robust data systems to support this growth. You’ll work on a tight-knit team , help define data architecture at scale , and power critical decision-making systems across the company.
This is a mission-critical and impactful role for data engineers looking to work in a high-scale, user-focused environment.