Staff Data Engineer, Discord

• If leading technical innovation, architecting scalable solutions, and empowering teams through data excites you, we encourage you to make a move!
• 7+ years of hands-on experience writing production code and architecting data pipelines with high-volume consumer data in advertising or marketing technology domains
• 7+ years of direct implementation experience designing, coding, and maintaining complex data models and systems handling structured and unstructured data sources
• Expert-level coding abilities in SQL, Python, and modern data engineering frameworks with demonstrated ability to write performant, maintainable, and scalable code
• Digital advertising data engineering expertise with hands-on experience building high-throughput data pipelines for ad serving, conversion tracking, advertising measurement, or integrating and normalizing third-party advertising data from external platforms and partners
• Proven hands-on experience implementing and debugging data quality audits, monitoring systems, and automated remediation for massive datasets (billions+ rows)
• Technical leadership through coding with experience mentoring engineers via pair programming, code reviews, and collaborative problem-solving
• Strong technical communication abilities to explain complex implementations to stakeholders while thriving in rapidly-evolving technical environments
• Passion for solving complex problems through direct technical contribution and desire to work with exceptional engineers on challenging data infrastructure
• Collaborative mindset with intellectual curiosity and commitment to technical excellence through hands-on delivery

Desirable

• Discord is used by over 200 million people every month for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does on our platform: play video games
• Over 90% of our users play games, spending a combined 1.5 billion hours playing thousands of unique titles on Discord each month. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming
• We are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games
• Discord, an inclusive community for all, seeks a seasoned technical leader to join our Data team as a Staff Data Engineer, focusing on our advertising products
• In this role, you will drive technical vision and strategy for data infrastructure while building and maintaining sophisticated data pipelines, datasets, and analytical tools. You will lead cross-functional initiatives to transform our advertising products through data-driven insights and mentor fellow engineers to deliver exceptional results
• Create and maintain complex, enterprise-scale data pipelines and foundational datasets while defining technical strategy and architectural direction for advertising products
• Design and build sophisticated ETL processes, data models, and analytical frameworks using SQL, Python, and modern data stack technologies
• Develop data quality frameworks, monitoring systems, automated anomaly detection, and alerting infrastructure that operates at massive scale
• Collaborate with data scientists, ML engineers, and product teams, directly implementing their requirements into scalable, maintainable data solutions
• Drive cross-functional technical initiatives solving sophisticated data engineering challenges
• Create scalable dashboards and reports to support business objectives and enable data-driven decision making
• Lead and mentor engineers through pair programming, code reviews, and collaborative problem-solving