Data Engineer, Analytics — Metrics & Dashboards

Discord; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Discord is seeking an experienced Data Engineer, Analytics to own the transformation and semantic layer that turns data into clean, tested, well-documented tables and dashboards. You will define metrics, partner with data science and product teams, and surface insights through visualization tools.

You will work with engineers and product managers to translate business questions into scalable data assets, ensuring data quality and governance across the analytics stack.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in analytics or data engineering with a strong focus on building curated, consumer-facing datasets.
• 3+ years designing, developing, and maintaining robust data models from structured and unstructured sources.
• 3+ years of experience writing accurate and effective SQL.
• Experience designing data models to power a variety of use cases, including experimentation.
• Fluency in Python or another programming language, with solid fundamentals in version control and CI/CD practices.
• Experience building and owning executive-level dashboards and reports using BI tools (e.g., Looker, Tableau, or similar).
• Strong business acumen, you will partner with data scientists and product managers to translate ambiguous business questions into concrete metric definitions and data models.
• Excellent communication, comfortable being the connective tissue between technical and business teams.
• Last but not least, desire to work with amazing, passionate people who care deeply about solving challenging problems to improve Discord

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain curated analytical datasets and data models that serve as canonical sources for metrics, dashboards, and analyses.
• Own metric definitions end to end, from partnering with data science and product team to define what we should measure, to implementing it in production, to surfacing it in visualization tools.
• Build and maintain executive-level dashboards and self-serve reporting tools that enable business stakeholders to answer their own questions.
• Partner closely with data science, product manager, and engineering teams to translate business questions into well modeled, performant, and discoverable data assets.
• Establish and enforce data quality standards through testing frameworks, documentation, and monitoring for the datasets you own.
• Drive adoption of consistent data modeling patterns, naming conventions, and documentation norms across the data organization.

Skills

Analytics experience

Data modeling

SQL

Python

BI tools

Communication

Tools

Looker

Tableau

CI/CD

Job description

Discord is seeking an experienced Data Engineer, Analytics to own the transformation and semantic layer that turns data into clean, tested, well-documented tables and dashboards. You will define metrics, partner with data science and product teams, and surface insights through visualization tools.

You will work with engineers and product managers to translate business questions into scalable data assets, ensuring data quality and governance across the analytics stack.