Full-Time Senior Data Engineer

Discord, an inclusive community for all, invites an experienced data engineer to join our Data team, focusing on our marketing solutions and advertising products. As a Senior Data Engineer, your critical role will involve building and maintaining data pipelines, datasets, and analytical tools. These resources will guide insights and decision-making to revamp our advertising products. We are looking for someone with previous experience in a similar domain who can deliver valuable insights and expertise to optimize our advertising products and strategies.

If harnessing data, creating impact, and teamwork ignites a spark in you, we encourage you to make a move!

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, machine learning, 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!

You Will Thrive In This Role If

• 4+ years of experience building data pipelines in production environments with high volumes of consumer data in marketing solutions and advertising
• 4+ years of experience in designing, developing, and maintaining robust data models from structured and unstructured sources
• 4+ 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 and stakeholder management 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 gaming in general
• Experience owning and proactively improving the data models for a functional area leveraging deep knowledge of performant scalable patterns
• Experience collaborating directly with data science, machine learning, and product engineering teams
• Experience with modern data storage and processing technologies (i.e. BigQuery SQL, Airflow, and DBT or similar)
• Experience with data visualization and dashboarding technologies (i.e. Looker, Tableau, or similar)
• Experience with designing data architecture to power a variety of use cases, including experimentation
• Experience with external data ingestion processes and technologies