# Staff Data Engineer - Data Infrastructure at Discord

- Company: Discord
- What the company does: Backed by Index.
- Company website: http://discordapp.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $245K to $279K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-10
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/discord/jobs/8691572002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/discord-staff-data-engineer-data-infrastructure/

## 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

Tags: Data Science & Engineering