Staff Data Engineer — Equity + Scalable Analytics Platform

Discord Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 279,000 - 310,000; Full time

Job summary

Discord Inc. is seeking a seasoned Staff Data Engineer to lead the analytics data infrastructure and governance at scale. You will drive technical vision, build curated datasets, and provide a trustworthy self-serve semantic layer powering internal metrics, investor reporting, and partner disclosures.

You will collaborate with Data Governance, Data Science, Product, Finance, and Engineering, reporting to the Director of Data Engineering. This is a full-time, on-site role in the US.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in data and software engineering.
• 7+ years designing, developing, and maintaining data infrastructure.
• Expert-level SQL and strong Python skills, with fundamentals in version control and CI/CD.
• Proven experience implementing data quality audits, monitoring systems, and automated remediation for massive datasets.
• Strong business acumen and communication skills, able to translate ambiguous questions into concrete metrics.
• Track record of hands-on collaboration with Data Science, Finance, and Product teams.

Responsibilities

• Define technical strategy and architectural direction for analytics data infrastructure.
• Own the design and implementation of data governance programs end to end.
• Design and build sophisticated data abstractions and analytical frameworks using SQL, Python, and modern data stack technologies.
• Develop data quality frameworks, monitoring, anomaly detection, and alerting at massive scale with governance and lineage tracking.
• Drive adoption of consistent data modeling patterns, naming conventions, documentation norms, and metric governance standards.
• Lead cross-functional technical initiatives across product verticals and mentor engineers.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data quality

Data governance

CI/CD

Cross-functional collaboration

Data modeling

Tools

dbt

BigQuery

Job description

Discord Inc. is seeking a seasoned Staff Data Engineer to lead the analytics data infrastructure and governance at scale. You will drive technical vision, build curated datasets, and provide a trustworthy self-serve semantic layer powering internal metrics, investor reporting, and partner disclosures.

You will collaborate with Data Governance, Data Science, Product, Finance, and Engineering, reporting to the Director of Data Engineering. This is a full-time, on-site role in the US.