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Staff Data Engineer - Data Infrastructure

Discord · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

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About the role

Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does: play video games. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games.

What they're looking for

  • Define technical strategy and architectural direction for analytics data infrastructure, building and maintaining enterprise-scale curated datasets and data models
  • Design and build sophisticated data abstractions and analytical frameworks using SQL, Python, and modern data stack technologies
  • Develop data quality frameworks, monitoring, anomaly detection, and alerting at massive scale, with governance, lineage tracking, and change management rigor appropriate for externally reported numbers
  • Drive adoption of consistent data modeling patterns, naming conventions, documentation norms, and metric governance standards across the data organization
  • Lead cross-functional technical initiatives across product verticals and mentor engineers to accelerate delivery and harden data systems
  • Navigate ambiguity and make sound technical decisions with incomplete information, balancing short-term delivery with long-term infrastructure investment
More about this role

Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does: play video games. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games.

Discord is looking for a seasoned technical leader to join our Data team as a Staff Data Engineer. You will drive technical vision and strategy for our analytical data infrastructure which facilitates the transformation and semantic layer that powers clean, tested, well-documented datasets that the company can trust and self-serve from. The data your team builds won't just inform internal decisions, it will underpin the metrics we share with investors, partners, and the public, requiring exceptional rigor, auditability, and precision. This role works closely with Data Governance, Data Science, Product, Finance, and Engineering teams. This role reports to the Director of Data Engineering.

  • Define technical strategy and architectural direction for analytics data infrastructure, building and maintaining enterprise-scale...

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