Staff Data Engineer, Analytics
Discord · San Francisco Bay Area · Data Science & Engineering
About this role
Discord is hiring a staff-level Data Engineer based in San Francisco Bay Area. The posting calls out experience with Python, SQL, BigQuery, dbt. Compensation is listed at $248,000–$279,000 per year.
- Role
- Data Engineer
- Function
- data engineering
- Level
- staff
- Track
- Tech leadership
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Department
- Data Science & Engineering
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Job description
from Discord careersDiscord 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 a seasoned technical leader to join our Data team as a Staff Data Engineer, Analytics. You will drive technical vision and strategy for our analytical data infrastructure, owning the transformation and semantic layer that powers clean, tested, well-documented datasets that the company can trust and self-serve from. The data you build won't just inform internal decisions, it will underpin the metrics we share with investors, partners, and the public, requiring exceptional rigor, auditability, and precision. This role works closely with Data Science, Product, Finance, and Engineering teams.
What You'll Be Doing
- Define technical strategy and architectural direction for analytics data infrastructure, building and maintaining enterprise-scale curated datasets and data models