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SeniorFull-timePythonMachine LearningData ScienceData
Salary Range
$132,600 - $179,400 /year
This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.
About the Role
We are looking for experienced and passionate Senior Data Engineers to join our Data team at Discord. Our data infrastructure powers insights across the entire company, and we need Senior Data Engineers who are passionate about building the foundational datasets and pipelines that enable data-driven decision making at scale.
Key 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
- →Partner closely with data science and engineering teams to improve instrumentation coverage, accuracy, and reliability across Discord's products
- →Build scalable data quality audits, implementing automated alerting and anomaly detection systems that catch issues before they impact downstream consumers
- →Proactively identify and execute opportunities to improve ETL performance, reduce costs, and enhance the overall data platform experience
- →Create dashboards and reporting infrastructure that enable self-serve analytics and support key business objectives across functional teams
- →Champion data engineering best practices including documentation, testing, and maintainable code that scales with Discord's growth
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
- ✓Experience collaborating directly with data science, machine learning, and product engineering teams
- ✓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!
