Remote Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform

Summary

Join Discord's Data team as a Senior Data Engineer! This US-based role focuses on building and maintaining data pipelines and foundational datasets to support analytics, modeling, and product needs. You will design database architectures, collaborate with various teams, develop data quality audits, and create scalable dashboards. The ideal candidate possesses 4+ years of experience in data pipeline building, data model design, and SQL/Python coding, along with experience in data quality audits and performance improvement. A collaborative attitude and passion for solving challenging problems are essential. The role offers a competitive salary, equity, and benefits.

Requirements

• 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
• A collaborative attitude and a healthy dose of natural curiosity!

Responsibilities

• 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!

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

Benefits

• Equity
• Benefits