Senior Ads Data Engineer — ML Pipelines & Insights

The Game Scientist; United States; On-site; USD 221,000 - 245,000; Full time

Job summary

Discord seeks a seasoned Data Engineer focusing on advertising product data to drive strategy for ML initiatives and build robust data pipelines. You will lead cross-functional efforts with Data Science, ML Engineering, and Product teams, mentoring engineers and shaping scalable data infrastructure.

The role emphasizes designing core data models, ML data enabling features, third-party attribution integration, and low-latency batch/streaming pipelines on a BigQuery + dbt + Dagster stack.

Qualifications

• 5+ years writing production code and architecting data pipelines in ad tech
• Expertise in digital advertising data engineering
• Experience building data models in greenfield environments
• Expert-level SQL and Python
• Data quality audits and anomaly detection at massive scale
• Strong technical communication and cross-functional collaboration

Responsibilities

• Design and own core ads data models
• Build and maintain ML data for ads ranking and targeting
• Build conversion measurement pipelines and integrate MMPs
• Develop batch and near real-time pipeline infrastructure
• Develop data quality frameworks and monitoring
• Mentor engineers and drive alignment across teams

Skills

SQL

Python

Data pipelines

Data modeling

Data quality

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

BigQuery

dbt

Dagster

Looker/Tableau

Kafka

Spark Streaming

Job description

Discord seeks a seasoned Data Engineer focusing on advertising product data to drive strategy for ML initiatives and build robust data pipelines. You will lead cross-functional efforts with Data Science, ML Engineering, and Product teams, mentoring engineers and shaping scalable data infrastructure.

The role emphasizes designing core data models, ML data enabling features, third-party attribution integration, and low-latency batch/streaming pipelines on a BigQuery + dbt + Dagster stack.