Discord is looking for an experienced and passionate Senior Data Engineer, Analytics to join our data team! You will be owning the transformation and semantic layer that turns data into clean, tested, well-documented tables and dashboards that data scientists, product managers, and business stakeholders can trust and self-serve from. You'll define and operationalize the metrics that inform how we identify opportunities, measure success, and make decisions. If this sounds exciting to you and you’re passionate about data modeling, metric design, and empowering teams to move faster with reliable data, read on!

We're hiring for multiple verticals on our Data Engineering team, including Engagement and Performance.

What you will be doing:

• Design, build, and maintain curated analytical datasets and data models that serve as canonical sources for metrics, dashboards, and analyses
• Own metric definitions end to end, from partnering with data science and product team to define what we should measure, to implementing it in production, to surfacing it in visualization tools
• Build and maintain executive-level dashboards and self-serve reporting tools that enable business stakeholders to answer their own questions
• Partner closely with data science, product manager, and engineering teams to translate business questions into well modeled, performant, and discoverable data assets
• Establish and enforce data quality standards through testing frameworks, documentation, and monitoring for the datasets you own
• Drive adoption of consistent data modeling patterns, naming conventions, and documentation norms across the data organization

What you should have

• 4+ years of experience in analytics or data engineering with a strong focus on building curated, consumer-facing datasets
• 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
• Experience with designing data model to power a variety of use cases, including experimentation
• Fluency in Python or another programming language, with solid fundamentals in version control and CI/CD practices
• Experience building and owning executive-level dashboards and reports using BI tools (e.g., Looker, Tableau, or similar)
• Strong business acumen, you will partner with data scientists and product managers to translate ambiguous business questions into concrete metric definitions and data models
• Excellent communication, comfortable being the connective tissue between technical and business teams
• Last but not least, desire to work with amazing, passionate people who care deeply about solving challenging problems to improve Discord

Bonus Points:

• Passion for Discord or online communities
• Experience building or contributing to a semantic layer or metrics store
• Experience with modern analytics and data engineering tools and workflows (dbt, BigQuery, or similar)
• Experience defining and governing metric standards across a data organization
• Experience working on analytics for core features (i.e. messaging, video/voice call etc) in communication app.
• Experience working on analytics for performance and reliability of communication app
• Background in analytics for core communication features (messaging, video/voice) or platform reliability and performance.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $196,000 to $220,500 + 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.

Discord seeks a seasoned technical leader to join our Data team as a Staff Data Engineer, focusing on our advertising products. In this role, you will drive technical vision and strategy for ads data infrastructure while building and maintaining sophisticated data pipelines, datasets, and analytical tools. You will lead cross-functional initiatives to transform our advertising products through data-driven insights and mentor fellow engineers to deliver exceptional results.

This role works heavily with Data Science, product, sales, and account management teams. If leading technical innovation, architecting scalable solutions, and empowering teams through data excites you, we encourage you to make a move!

What You'll Be Doing

• Create and maintain complex, enterprise-scale data pipelines and foundational datasets while defining technical strategy and architectural direction for advertising products
• Design and build sophisticated ETL processes, data models, and analytical frameworks using SQL, Python, and modern data stack technologies
• Build and maintain the data infrastructure that powers Ads ML - feature pipelines, label generation workflows, and training data systems that enable our ranking and delivery models
• Develop data quality frameworks, monitoring systems, automated anomaly detection, and alerting infrastructure that operates at massive scale
• Collaborate with data scientists, ML engineers, and product teams to identify high-impact data infrastructure opportunities, owning design through implementation
• Drive cross-functional technical initiatives solving sophisticated data engineering challenges
• Build scalable rubrics that help lead and mentor engineers through projects that accelerate launch velocity and harden data systems
• Navigate ambiguity and make sound technical decisions with incomplete information, balancing short-term delivery with long-term infrastructure investment

What you should have

• 7+ years of hands-on experience writing production code and architecting data pipelines with high-volume consumer data in advertising technology domains (eg. ad delivery, ranking, targeting, identity)
• 7+ years of direct implementation experience designing, coding, and maintaining complex data models and systems handling structured and unstructured data sources
• Expert-level coding abilities in SQL, Python, and modern data engineering frameworks with demonstrated ability to write performant, maintainable, and scalable code
• Digital advertising data engineering expertise with hands-on experience building high-throughput data pipelines for ad serving, conversion tracking, advertising measurement, or integrating and normalizing third-party advertising data from external platforms and partners
• Proven hands-on experience implementing and debugging data quality audits, monitoring systems, and automated remediation for massive datasets (billions+ rows)
• Strong technical communication abilities to explain complex implementations to stakeholders while thriving in rapidly-evolving technical environments
• Passion for solving complex problems through direct technical contribution and desire to work with exceptional engineers on challenging data infrastructure
• Hands-on collaboration experience implementing solutions with data science, ML engineering, and product teams through direct technical contribution
• Collaborative mindset with intellectual curiosity and commitment to technical excellence through hands-on delivery

Bonus Points

• Passion for Discord or gaming in general
• Hands-on integration experience implementing connections with external data sources, APIs, and third-party advertising platforms
• Experience with modern data storage and processing technologies (BigQuery SQL, Airflow, Dagster, DBT, or similar)
• Experience with data visualization and dashboarding technologies (Looker, Tableau, or similar)
• Experience with designing data architecture to power a variety of use cases, including experimentation

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $248,000 to $279,000 + 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.

As a member of the Data Science & Analytics team, you will help Discord achieve its mission of making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games. Data Scientists for Analytics leverage their deep analytical skills and product intuition to solve a wide array of complex problems - from strategic analysis to dashboard creation and experimentation design and analysis. We are currently hiring across a variety of data science verticals and teams including revenue and performance. If you’re passionate about data, impact, and working on an amazing team, read on!

What you'll be doing

• Partner with teams throughout Discord through the full lifecycle of data science analytics from ideation and exploratory analysis, to building dashboards and reports, and A/B testing
• Define KPIs and metrics that help improve the user experience, encapsulating these measures in clean crisp dashboards that provide the company with timely and actionable information
• Use our amazing infrastructure to quickly and easily build custom data sets to monitor novel product features and processes
• Proactively socialize insights, dashboards, and reports with technical and non-technical audiences, soliciting feedback on where to improve
• Be a champion of A/B testing and help groups throughout the company design, analyze, and interpret A/B tests correctly
• Collaborate with data and engineering teams to design scalable and future-proof instrumentation

What you should have

• 3+ years of experience autonomously translating ambiguous business problems into deep informative insights through hands-on analytics
• 3+ years of experience building performant dashboards using Tableau, Looker, or similar software - with proficiency in designing clean crisp visualizations
• 2+ years experience writing excellent SQL
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complicated findings or technical approaches in easy-to-understand ways
• 2+ years of experience in the design, analysis, and interpretation of A/B tests in a large data environment
• 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 with analytics for social media or international subscription-based online services, including familiarity with concepts such as social graphs, LTV analysis, funnel analysis, etc.
• Experience in the user engagement and growth problems
• Experience writing performant code in BigQuery SQL
• Experience with writing production ETL
• Experience leveraging AI for data science

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.

As a member of the Data Science & Analytics team, you will help Discord achieve its mission of making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games. Senior Data Scientists for Analytics leverage their deep analytical skills and product intuition to solve a wide array of complex problems - from strategic analysis to dashboard creation and experimentation design and analysis. We are currently hiring across a variety of data science verticals and teams. If you’re passionate about data, impact, and working on an amazing team, read on!

What you'll be doing

• Partner with teams throughout Discord through the full lifecycle of data science analytics from ideation and exploratory analysis, to building dashboards and reports, and A/B testing
• Define KPIs and metrics that help improve the user experience, encapsulating these measures in clean crisp dashboards that provide the company with timely and actionable information
• Use our amazing infrastructure to quickly and easily build custom data sets to monitor novel product features and processes
• Proactively socialize insights, dashboards, and reports with technical and non-technical audiences, soliciting feedback on where to improve
• Be a champion of A/B testing and help groups throughout the company design, analyze, and interpret A/B tests correctly
• Collaborate with data and engineering teams to design scalable and future-proof instrumentation

What you should have

• 4+ years of experience autonomously translating ambiguous business problems into deep informative insights through hands-on analytics
• 4+ years of experience building performant dashboards using Tableau, Looker, or similar software - with proficiency in designing clean crisp visualizations
• 4+ years experience writing excellent SQL
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complicated findings or technical approaches in easy-to-understand ways
• 4+ years of experience in the design, analysis, and interpretation of A/B tests in a large data environment
• 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 with technical leadership, being the point person for one or more stakeholder groups
• Experience with analytics for social media or international subscription-based online services, including familiarity with concepts such as social graphs, LTV analysis, funnel analysis, etc.
• Experience in the user engagement and growth problems
• Experience writing performant code in BigQuery SQL
• Experience with writing production ETL

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). Relocation assistance may be available.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $196,000 to $220,500 + 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.

Discord is looking for an experienced and passionate Data Engineer, Analytics to join our data team! You will be owning the transformation and semantic layer that turns data into clean, tested, well-documented tables and dashboards that data scientists, product managers, and business stakeholders can trust and self-serve from. You'll define and operationalize the metrics that inform how we identify opportunities, measure success, and make decisions. If this sounds exciting to you and you’re passionate about data modeling, metric design, and empowering teams to move faster with reliable data, read on!

We're hiring for multiple verticals on our Data Engineering team, including Growth and Safety.

What you will be doing:

• Design, build, and maintain curated analytical datasets and data models that serve as the canonical sources for metrics, dashboards, and analyses.
• Partner closely with data science, product managers, and engineering teams to translate business questions into well-modeled, performant, and discoverable data assets.
• Execute metric workflows, from metric definition and logging schema design to data modeling and visualization, with guidance from manager and senior team members.
• Build and maintain executive-level dashboards and self-serve reporting tools that enable business stakeholders to answer their own questions.

What you should have

• 2+ years of experience in analytics or data engineering with a strong focus on building curated, consumer-facing datasets
• 2+ years of experience in designing, developing, and maintaining robust data models from structured and unstructured sources to power a variety of use cases, including experimentation
• 2+ years of experience writing accurate and effective SQL
• Fluency in Python or another programming language
• Experience building and owning executive-level dashboards and reports using BI tools (e.g., Looker, Tableau, or similar)
• Strong business acumen, you will partner with data scientists and product managers to translate ambiguous questions into concrete metric definitions and data models
• Excellent communication, comfortable being the connective tissue between technical and business teams
• Last but not least, desire to work with amazing, passionate people who care deeply about solving challenging problems to improve Discord

Bonus Points:

• Passion for Discord or online communities
• Experience building or contributing to a semantic layer or metrics store
• Experience with modern analytics and data engineering tools (dbt, BigQuery etc)
• Experience implementing and monitoring audits for data quality with massive data sets (e.g. billions of rows)
• Experience working on SEO, GEO, or other top of funnel growth focused features.
• Experience collaborating with compliance, legal, or litigation cross-functional teams.

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.