Senior Data Engineer, Discord

$183-201.5k

+Equity

SQL
Python
Tableau
Looker
Airflow
BigQuery
dbt
Mid and Senior level
Remote in US
San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

Discord

Voice, video and text communication platform

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Discord

Voice, video and text communication platform

1001+ employees

B2CGamingCommunicationSocialSocial MediaCommunity

Be an early applicant

$183-201.5k

+Equity

SQL
Python
Tableau
Looker
Airflow
BigQuery
dbt
Mid and Senior level
Remote in US
San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

1001+ employees

B2CGamingCommunicationSocialSocial MediaCommunity

Company mission

Discord's mission is to help friends and communities come together to hang out and explore their interests.

Role

Who you are

  • Discord is looking for experienced and passionate Senior Data Engineers to join our Data team!
  • If this sounds exciting to you and you’re passionate about data, impact, and working on an amazing team, read on!
  • 4+ years of experience building data pipelines in production environments with high volumes of consumer data
  • 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!

Desirable

  • Passion for Discord or online communities
  • 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

What the job involves

  • 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
  • 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!

Our take

Discord is an industry giant in the chat app space. The free platform has rapidly become one of the most popular services in the sector since being founded in 2015. It counts over 150 million active users in 19 million communities, successfully expanding beyond its original focus on video game players to become a broader social networking app and public forum.

Discord's userbase has grown rapidly as remote work has become the norm and a new generation of internet users has come online, attracted to its youthful presentation and plethora of gaming and social tools. It has since fended off takeover bids from Microsoft and interest from other giants such as Amazon and Twitter, and has grown into a profitable company, funded by optional subscription fees and commissions from sales through the platform.

Discord’s remarkable growth, however, is not without obstacles. The company faces competition from deep-pocketed giants like Facebook, and regulatory concerns from those worried about the platform’s relatively light chat moderation. However, the company has the resources and expertise to adapt. For example, the acquisition of harassment detection software company Sentropy will go a long way towards placating the concerns of critics, as will the 2024 acquisition of teen app Gas used to give anonymous compliments to friends. All of these purchases are part of Discord's move to expand out of its mostly gaming-focused customer base.

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Insights

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

28% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)

Sep 2021

$500m

SERIES H

Dec 2020

$100m

SERIES H

Total funding: $979.3m

Company benefits

  • Comprehensive medical insurance including Health, Dental and Vision
  • Mental health resources and quarterly wellness stipends
  • 16+ paid holidays, 4 weeks of PTO + use-what-you-need sick days
  • Paid parental leave (plus fertility, adoption and other family planning benefits)
  • Flexible long-term work options (remote and hybrid)
  • Volunteer time off
  • A diverse slate of Employee Resource Groups
  • Plus commuter contributions and other perks for office-based employees

Company values

  • Autonomy
  • Mastery
  • Purpose
  • Compassion

Company HQ

Potrero Hill, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Started out as a programmer at Papaya Studio, Stormfront Studios and Doublefine Productions. Also founded OpenFeint, a global mobile social gaming company.

Worked as a Software Engineer at Casamba and then Kabam. Was Lead Software Engineer at GREE International, and founded social network Guildwork.com in 2009.

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