Senior Data Engineer: Scalable Pipelines, Analytics & Equity

Discord; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 221,000 - 245,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Discord is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to architect and operate scalable data pipelines, collaborating with data science, ML, and engineering teams to power models and dashboards.

You will own data models end-to-end, design architectures for large-scale data, and implement quality checks, cost-aware optimizations, and reliable instrumentation.

Strong communication and a collaborative mindset help translate complex data work into actionable insights for product and business decisions.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience building and operating production data pipelines with high volumes of consumer data.
• Strong data modeling across structured and unstructured sources.
• Proficiency in SQL and Python with performant, maintainable code.
• Experience implementing data quality checks on very large datasets.
• Proven track record owning complex projects end to end.
• Clear communication and stakeholder management; comfortable with ambiguity.
• Collaborative approach and curiosity.

Responsibilities

• Own the data models and pipelines for a functional area end to end, from design through implementation and adoption.
• Build and maintain foundational datasets that power analytics, modeling, experimentation, and dashboards/reports.
• Design data architectures for massive, complex data, balancing usability, performance, and cost.
• Partner with data science, ML, and engineering teams to improve instrumentation coverage and accuracy.
• Build data quality audits at scale with alerting and anomaly detection.
• Find and act on opportunities to improve pipeline and dashboard performance and cost.
• Drive adoption of your work through documentation and enablement; share learnings with teammates.

Skills

Data pipelines

Data modeling

SQL

Python

Data quality

End-to-end ownership

Communication

Collaboration

Tools

BigQuery

Airflow

dbt

Looker

Tableau

Job description

Discord is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to architect and operate scalable data pipelines, collaborating with data science, ML, and engineering teams to power models and dashboards.

You will own data models end-to-end, design architectures for large-scale data, and implement quality checks, cost-aware optimizations, and reliable instrumentation.

Strong communication and a collaborative mindset help translate complex data work into actionable insights for product and business decisions.