Senior Data Engineer, Ads

Discord; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Discord seeks a seasoned Data Engineer focused on our advertising product data. You will drive technical vision for ads data engineering, building and maintaining data pipelines, datasets, and analytical tools to support ML initiatives.

You will lead cross-functional work with Data Science, ML Engineering, Ads Product, and GTM, and mentor engineers to deliver exceptional results. If you enjoy architecting scalable solutions and empowering teams through data, this role offers a unique opportunity

Qualifications

• Seasoned data engineer with ads data experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and own core ads data models powering delivery, measurement, targeting, and ML use cases.
• Build and maintain ML data for ads ranking, delivery, and targeting with feature development and observability.
• Build conversion measurement pipelines and integrate attribution data (Adjust, AppsFlyer, Singular).
• Construct batch and near real-time pipelines across the ads ecosystem (BigQuery, dbt, Dagster).
• Develop data quality frameworks and SLA infrastructure for large-scale ads pipelines.
• Identify foundational data infrastructure gaps and design scalable canonical solutions.

Job description

Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does: play video games. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games.Discord seeks a seasoned Data Engineer, focusing on our advertising product data. In this role, you will drive technical vision and strategy for ads data engineering in support of our ML initiatives 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. This role works heavily with Data Science, Machine Learning, and product. If leading technical innovation, architecting scalable solutions, and empowering teams through data excites you, we encourage you to make a move!

What You’ll Be Doing

• Design and own core ads data models: fact/dim tables, canonical datasets, and aggregation layers that power delivery, measurement, targeting, attribution, and ML use cases.
• Build and maintain the ML data that enables ads ranking, delivery, and targeting - including feature development, label generation workflows, intra-day training, and ML input observability to catch data quality issues before they degrade model performance.
• Build conversion measurement pipelines and integrate third-party attribution data - including Conversion Attribution and Mobile Measurement Partner (MMP) integrations (Adjust, AppsFlyer, Singular) - ensuring attribution accuracy and data parity across measurement surfaces.
• Build batch and near real-time pipeline infrastructure across the ads ecosystem - pushing toward lower-latency data for ML and reporting use cases on our BigQuery + dbt + Dagster stack. Partnering with Data Platform on launch and success of new data processing engines to support low latency requirements..
• Develop data quality frameworks, monitoring systems, automated anomaly detection, and SLA infrastructure for critical ads pipelines at massive scale.
• Proactively identify foundational data infrastructure gaps - including those with broad implications across ML, measurement, and reporting - and design scalable, canonical solutions that multiple teams can depend on.
• Build systems from scratch in a rapidly evolving, greenfield advertising data environment - making sound architectural decisions with incomplete information and balancing short-term delivery with long‑term infrastructure investment.
• Drive alignment across Data Science, ML Engineering, Ads Product, and GTM teams through clear narratives that connect data infrastructure decisions to business outcomes and revenue impact.
• Mentor engineers through technical challenges, code and design reviews, and ownership of complex projects - contributing to the