Data Engineering Manager, Discord
$248-279k
+ Equity
Voice, video and text communication platform
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Voice, video and text communication platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$248-279k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help friends and communities come together to hang out and explore their interests.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or data architecture
- 2+ years experience as a data engineering manager and have successfully managed multiple individual contributors
- Experience hiring and growing data engineers
- 4+ years of experience in developing robust data models based off of structured and unstructured sources at massive scale
- 4+ years of experience writing accurate and effective code in SQL and Python
- An ability to explain complex concepts in easy-to-understand ways and navigate environments where problems are not well-defined (and evolve quickly)
- Experience leveraging your excellent communication skills to thrive in areas where problems are not well-defined and evolve quickly
- Experience proactively identifying opportunities to improve ETL and dashboard performance and cost
- A desire to work with amazing, passionate people who care deeply about solving challenging problems to improve Discord
- Last but not least - a collaborative attitude and natural curiosity
Desirable
- Passion for Discord or online communities
- Experience working with Revenue, Ads, or Gaming domains
- Experience owning and proactively improving data models, implementing best practices, and influencing large-scale change
- Experience collaborating directly with data science, infrastructure, and product engineering teams
- Experience with modern data storage and processing technologies (i.e. BigQuery SQL, Looker, Airflow, and DBT or similar)
- Experience designing data architecture to power a variety of uses cases, including machine learning and experimentation
What the job involves
- Discord is looking for an experienced manager to join our Data Engineering function!
- Data Engineers at Discord collaborate with data science and engineering teams to design, build, and scale high-leverage datasets that enable analytics, modeling, and experimentation
- As a Data Engineering Manager, you will establish and drive a vision for data architecture and data quality across multiple company verticals
- If this sounds exciting to you and you're passionate about data, impact, and leading an amazing team, read on!
- Develop and execute a roadmap to build and optimize foundational datasets to ensure delivery of high-quality ergonomic data across multiple company verticals
- Develop and execute a roadmap to establish data quality as a given, at scale
- Partner with data platform teams to identify opportunities to improve infrastructure and influence their roadmaps accordingly
- Inform architectural decisions, establish best practices, develop lean scalable processes, and contribute to the overall direction of the data organization at Discord
- Grow a world-class team, expanding the impact and reach of data at Discord
- Establish a collaborative culture that thrives on innovation and impact
Our take
Discord is an industry giant in the chat app space. The free platform has rapidly become one of the most popular services in the sector since being founded in 2015. It counts over 200M active users in 19M communities, successfully expanding beyond its original focus on video game players to become a broader social networking app and public forum.
Discord's userbase has grown rapidly as remote work has become the norm and a new generation of internet users has come online, attracted to its youthful presentation and plethora of gaming and social tools. It has since fended off takeover bids from Microsoft and interest from other giants such as Amazon and X, and has grown into a profitable company, funded by optional subscription fees and commissions from sales through the platform.
Discord’s remarkable growth, however, is not without obstacles. The company faces competition from deep-pocketed giants like Facebook, and regulatory concerns from those worried about the platform’s relatively light chat moderation. However, the company has the resources and expertise to adapt. For example, the acquisition of harassment detection software company Sentropy will go a long way towards placating the concerns of critics, as will the 2024 acquisition of teen app Gas used to give anonymous compliments to friends. All of these purchases are part of Discord's move to expand out of its mostly gaming-focused customer base.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
28% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Sep 2021
$500m
SERIES H
Dec 2020
$100m
SERIES H
Total funding: $979.3m
Company HQ
Potrero Hill, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Stanislav Vishnevskiy
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously worked as a Software Engineer at Casamba and then Kabam. Also worked as a Lead Software Engineer at GREE International, and founded social network Guildwork.com in 2009.
Humam Sakhnini
(CEO)Humam joined the Discord team in 2025 as CEO. Prior to this, he was the VIce Chairman and Chief Strategy & Talent Officer at Activision Blizzard as well as the CFO/President at King. He also spent 8 years at McKinsey & Company as a Partner.
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