Staff Data Platform Engineer - Scale & Real-Time Analytics

Visa Hunt; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 248,000 - 310,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

SF office

Job summary

Discord is building the next generation Data Platform and is hiring a Staff Engineer to lead data infrastructure initiatives in our San Francisco office. You will own technical direction, mentor teams, and translate complex problems into robust production systems.

We value distributed-systems expertise, architectural leadership, and cross-functional influence across engineering, product, and business. Relocation support is available and base salary aligns with SF market.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with end-to-end delivery.
• Expertise in distributed systems and data infrastructure at scale.
• Ability to multiply a team's impact through architectural thought leadership, reviews, reusable abstractions, and mentorship.
• Strong technical judgment: when to go fast vs. slow, when to build vs. integrate.
• Cross-functional influence across engineering, product, and business without relying on authority.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction of major Data Platform initiatives from problem to production system and post-launch health.
• Be a force multiplier: build reusable primitives, unblock teammates, and raise the quality bar across the team.
• Stay a top code contributor. You write real production code while helping others reach the same bar.
• Partner with XFN stakeholders to translate business problems into clear technical strategy.
• Champion debate, decide, and commit and 80/20 thinking to drive robust technical solutions supporting multiple teams.

Skills

Distributed systems

Architectural leadership

Mentorship

Cross-functional influence

Technical judgment

Production code

Job description

Discord is building the next generation Data Platform and is hiring a Staff Engineer to lead data infrastructure initiatives in our San Francisco office. You will own technical direction, mentor teams, and translate complex problems into robust production systems.

We value distributed-systems expertise, architectural leadership, and cross-functional influence across engineering, product, and business. Relocation support is available and base salary aligns with SF market.