Discord
Discord is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join its Data team, where you'll design and build scalable data infrastructure that directly impacts decisions across analytics, machine learning, product development, and more. This is a high-impact role that focuses on building foundational datasets , optimizing pipelines , and ensuring data quality for a platform used by over 200 million monthly users .
If you're experienced in managing large-scale data systems and are excited by the chance to shape data strategy for one of the most active platforms in the gaming and social space, this could be a strong fit.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and Maintain Data Pipelines : Design and implement robust, production-grade pipelines that support analytics, experimentation, and ML workflows.
- Develop Foundational Datasets : Create scalable, accurate datasets that power decision-making across the company.
- Design Scalable Architectures : Work with complex, massive datasets to create systems that balance performance with cost.
- Improve Data Instrumentation : Partner with product and engineering teams to increase accuracy, reliability, and coverage of data collection.
- Implement Data Quality Monitoring : Build audits, alerts, and anomaly detection for proactive data integrity checks.
- Support Business with Dashboards : Deliver actionable dashboards and reporting tools that enable teams to track KPIs and make informed decisions.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration : Work closely with data scientists, engineers, and product teams to meet diverse data needs.
What You Should Have
- 4+ years of experience building scalable data pipelines in production with large consumer datasets.
- 4+ years designing and maintaining data models across structured and unstructured sources.
- Expertise in SQL and Python for data manipulation and pipeline development.
- Proven experience handling massive datasets (billions of rows) and building systems to maintain their quality.
- Experience with data auditing, anomaly detection, and performance tuning for ETL systems.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills in ambiguous and evolving environments.
- Collaboration experience with cross-functional teams including data science, ML, and product engineering .
- A collaborative mindset, curiosity, and enthusiasm for tackling complex problems.
Bonus Qualifications
- Passion for Discord or online communities .
- Ownership of data architecture for functional areas using scalable, performant patterns .
- Familiarity with tools like BigQuery , Airflow , DBT , Looker , Tableau , etc.
- Experience supporting experimentation platforms or real-time analytics .
- Base Salary (U.S.) : $196,000 – $220,500
- Additional : Equity + Benefits
- Compensation varies based on experience, skills, and education.
Why Join Discord?
- Platform impact : Work on infrastructure that supports over 1.5 billion hours of play each month.
- Cross-platform influence : Touch everything from gaming to machine learning.
- Autonomy and innovation : Tackle complex projects with a lean, collaborative team.
- Culture-first : Help shape the future of gaming, friendships, and online community experiences.