Senior Data Platform Engineer - Scale for Gamers

Hitmarker | Gaming Jobs; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 221,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Relocation assistance

Benefits

Job summary

Discord has a highly engaged community and is building the next generation Data Platform that powers decisions for millions of gamers worldwide. We’re seeking a Software Engineer who loves distributed systems, cares about user privacy, and wants their work to ship at scale.

You'll build and maintain data infrastructure, own projects end-to-end, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. Relocation to the San Francisco Bay Area may be required; US-based salary ranges include base, equity, and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with strong programming skills in Python, Java, Rust, Go, or similar.
• Hands-on experience building or operating data infrastructure like pipelines, streaming systems, orchestration, or data warehousing at scale (BigQuery, Kafka, Spark, Flink, Airflow, Dagster, or similar)
• Proven track record of delivering complex, multi-phase projects autonomously. You’ve owned the hard ones and handled edge cases, failure modes, and scale before they became problems.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, including with XFN partners. You write clear technical documents, drive alignment, and bring people along on technical decisions
• Growth mindset. You’ve failed, learned, and shipped something better because of it

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain data infrastructure processing petabytes of data across millions of users
• Write clean, well-tested code for data ingestion, transformation, and serving systems
• Own projects end-to-end. From design through deployment and production support
• Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and product teams to deliver solutions that power Discord's insights
• Apply 80/20 thinking to challenge requirements, cut unnecessary complexity, and deliver the optimal solution at the right time
• Mentor teammates through code reviews, RFCs, and shared technical knowledge that makes the whole team better

Skills

Python

Java

Rust

Go

Data pipelines

Streaming systems

Data warehousing

Orchestration tools

Collaboration

Documentation

Growth mindset

Tools

BigQuery

Kafka

Spark

Flink

Airflow

Dagster

Job description

Discord has a highly engaged community and is building the next generation Data Platform that powers decisions for millions of gamers worldwide. We’re seeking a Software Engineer who loves distributed systems, cares about user privacy, and wants their work to ship at scale.

You'll build and maintain data infrastructure, own projects end-to-end, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. Relocation to the San Francisco Bay Area may be required; US-based salary ranges include base, equity, and