Staff Data Engineer - Data Infrastructure

Discord is seeking a seasoned technical leader to join its Data team as a Staff Data Engineer. You will drive technical vision and strategy for analytical data infrastructure, facilitating the transformation and semantic layer that powers clean, tested, well-documented datasets.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define technical strategy and architectural direction for analytics data infrastructure, building and maintaining enterprise-scale curated datasets and data models.
• Own the design and implementation of data governance programs end-to-end, partnering with stakeholders to translate policy requirements into flexible and configurable infrastructure.
• Design and build sophisticated data abstractions and analytical frameworks using SQL, Python, and modern data stack technologies.
• Develop data quality frameworks, monitoring, anomaly detection, and alerting at massive scale, with governance, lineage tracking, and change management rigor.
• Drive adoption of consistent data modeling patterns, naming conventions, documentation norms, and metric governance standards across the data organization.
• Lead cross-functional technical initiatives and mentor engineers to accelerate delivery and harden data systems.

Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience in data and software engineering with a strong focus on building curated, consumer-facing datasets.
• 7+ years of experience in designing, developing, and maintaining data infrastructure used by data teams at scale.
• Expert-level SQL and strong Python skills, with solid fundamentals in version control and CI/CD.
• Proven experience implementing data quality audits, monitoring systems, and automated remediation for massive datasets.
• Strong business acumen and communication skills, comfortable translating ambiguous business questions into concrete metric definitions.

Nice to Have:

• 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 with reporting infrastructure subject to external audit or SOX compliance.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $279,000 to $310,000 + equity + benefits.