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Data Engineer

Reposted 12 Days Ago
In-Office
7 Locations
Mid level
In-Office
7 Locations
Mid level
The Data Engineer will build and maintain data pipelines, collaborate with data science teams, and ensure data quality for analytics and product needs.
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Discord is used by over 200 million people every month for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does on our platform: play video games. Over 90% of our users play games, spending a combined 1.5 billion hours playing thousands of unique titles on Discord each month. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games.

Discord is looking for experienced and passionate Data Engineers to join our Data team! Data Engineers at Discord collaborate with data science and engineering teams to build and support foundational high-leverage data sets that power tools, analyses, and models. The data sets built by DE directly inform how we identify opportunities, measure success, and make decisions. If this sounds exciting to you and you’re passionate about data, impact, and working on an amazing team, read on!

This position is SF based only.

What You'll Be Doing

  • Create and maintain data pipelines and foundational datasets to support analytics, modeling, experimentation, and product/business needs
  • Design and build database architectures with massive and complex data, balancing ergonomic benefits with computational load and cost
  • Collaborate closely with data science and engineering teams to improve the coverage, accuracy, and reliability of instrumentation
  • Develop audits for data quality at scale, implementing alerting and anomaly detection as necessary
  • Create scalable dashboards and reports to support business objectives and enable data-driven decision making
  • Partner with data scientists, engineers, and product teams to accomplish all of the above!

What you should have

  • 2+ years of experience building data pipelines in production with deep knowledge of performant scalable patterns
  • 2+ years of experience in designing, developing, and maintaining robust data models from structured and unstructured sources
  • 2+ years of experience writing accurate and effective code in SQL and Python
  • Experience implementing and monitoring audits for data quality with massive data sets (e.g. billions of rows)
  • Experience proactively identifying opportunities to improve ETL & dashboard performance and cost
  • Experience leveraging your excellent communication skills to thrive in ambiguous environments where problems are not well-defined and evolve quickly
  • A desire to work with amazing, passionate people who care deeply about solving challenging problems to improve Discord.
  • Last but not least - a collaborative attitude and a healthy dose of natural curiosity!

Bonus Points

  • Passion for Discord or online communities
  • Experience owning and proactively improving the data models for a functional area
  • Experience collaborating directly with data science and product engineering teams
  • Experience with modern data storage and processing technologies (i.e. BigQuery SQL, Looker, Airflow, and DBT or similar)
  • Experience with designing data architecture to power a variety of use cases, including experimentation
  • Experience with advertising products and third-party data ingestion is a strong plus

Candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties).

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $160,000 to $180,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits.

Why Discord? 
Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Your future is just a click away!

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Top Skills

Airflow
BigQuery
Dbt
Looker
Python
SQL

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