Senior Data Engineer (CA)

Discord is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join its Data team, where you'll design and build scalable data infrastructure that directly impacts decisions across analytics, machine learning, product development, and more. This is a high-impact role that focuses on building foundational datasets, optimizing pipelines, and ensuring data quality for a platform used by over 200 million monthly users.If you're experienced in managing large-scale data systems and are excited by the chance to shape data strategy for one of the most active platforms in the gaming and social space, this could be a strong fit.Key ResponsibilitiesBuild and Maintain Data Pipelines: Design and implement robust, production-grade pipelines that support analytics, experimentation, and ML workflows.Develop Foundational Datasets: Create scalable, accurate datasets that power decision-making across the company.Design Scalable Architectures: Work with complex, massive datasets to create systems that balance performance with cost.Improve Data Instrumentation: Partner with product and engineering teams to increase accuracy, reliability, and coverage of data collection.Implement Data Quality Monitoring: Build audits, alerts, and anomaly detection for proactive data integrity checks.Support Business with Dashboards: Deliver actionable dashboards and reporting tools that enable teams to track KPIs and make informed decisions.Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with data scientists, engineers, and product teams to meet diverse data needs.What You Should Have4+ years of experience building scalable data pipelines in production with large consumer datasets.4+ years designing and maintaining data models across structured and unstructured sources.Expertise in SQL and Python for data manipulation and pipeline development.Proven experience handling massive datasets (billions of rows) and building systems to maintain their quality.Experience with data auditing, anomaly detection, and performance tuning for ETL systems.Strong communication and stakeholder management skills in ambiguous and evolving environments.Collaboration experience with cross-functional teams including data science, ML, and product engineering.A collaborative mindset, curiosity, and enthusiasm for tackling complex problems.Bonus QualificationsPassion for Discord or online communities.Ownership of data architecture for functional areas using scalable, performant patterns.Familiarity with tools like BigQuery, Airflow, DBT, Looker, Tableau, etc.Experience supporting experimentation platforms or real-time analytics.Base Salary (U.S.): $196,000 – $220,500Additional: Equity + BenefitsCompensation varies based on experience, skills, and education.Why Join Discord?Platform impact: Work on infrastructure that supports over 1.5 billion hours of play each month.Cross-platform influence: Touch everything from gaming to machine learning.Autonomy and innovation: Tackle complex projects with a lean, collaborative team.Culture-first: Help shape the future of gaming, friendships, and online community munity Operations Specialist - Binance Wallet - SingaporeReposted: Binance Accelerator Program - iOS EngineerBinance Accelerator Program -(Java dev) QA EngineerCommunity Operations Specialist - Taipei City, Taiwan #J-18808-Ljbffr

Created: 2025-09-17