Ads Data Engineer: ML‑Driven Pipelines & Impact

Coinscapture; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 221,000 - 245,000; Full time

Job summary

Discord seeks a Senior Data Engineer focused on its advertising data. You will design core data models and own pipelines supporting ML initiatives, ranking, delivery, and attribution across the ads stack.

You will build batch and streaming data infrastructure on BigQuery, dbt, and Dagster, ensuring data quality and observability at scale while mentoring engineers and aligning with Data Science and Product teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience building production data pipelines in advertising/tech.
• Strong SQL and Python, with the ability to craft scalable data models.
• Experience with data quality, monitoring, and anomaly detection at scale.
• Experience partnering with Data Science, ML Engineering, and Product teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and own core ads data models (fact/dim tables, canonical datasets).
• Build and maintain ML-ready data for ranking, delivery, and attribution.
• Develop batch and near real-time data pipelines on BigQuery + dbt + Dagster stack.
• Mentor engineers and drive architectural decisions in a greenfield environment.
• Collaborate across Data Science, ML, Ads Product, and GTM for data-driven outcomes.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data pipelines

Data modeling

Data quality

Cross-functional communication

Tools

BigQuery

dbt

Dagster

Looker

Tableau

Kafka

Spark Streaming

Job description

Discord seeks a Senior Data Engineer focused on its advertising data. You will design core data models and own pipelines supporting ML initiatives, ranking, delivery, and attribution across the ads stack.

You will build batch and streaming data infrastructure on BigQuery, dbt, and Dagster, ensuring data quality and observability at scale while mentoring engineers and aligning with Data Science and Product teams.