Data Engineer
Job Description
Discord is building analytics infrastructure that teams can trust. In this onsite role in the San Francisco Bay Area, you will help shape transformation and a semantic layer that power clean, tested, well-documented tables and dashboards. You will own how metrics are defined and operationalized, delivering curated datasets and executive-ready reporting that supports self-serve decision making.
What you’ll do
- Design, build, and maintain curated analytical datasets and data models that act as canonical sources for metrics, dashboards, and analyses.
- Own metric definitions end to end, partnering with data science and product teams to define what to measure, implementing it in production, and surfacing it in visualization tools.
- Build and maintain executive-level dashboards and self-serve reporting so business stakeholders can answer questions with consistent data.
- Collaborate closely with data science, product managers, and engineers to translate business questions into well-modeled, performant, and discoverable data assets.
- Establish and enforce data quality standards using testing frameworks, documentation, and monitoring for datasets you own.
- Drive adoption of consistent data modeling patterns, naming conventions, and documentation norms across the data organization.
What you’ll bring
- 3+ years of experience in analytics or data engineering, with a focus on building curated, consumer-facing datasets.
- 3+ years designing, developing, and maintaining robust data models from structured and unstructured sources.
- 3+ years writing accurate and effective SQL code.
- Experience designing data models for a variety of use cases, including experimentation.
- Fluency in Python or another programming language, with solid fundamentals in version control and CI/CD practices.
- Experience building and owning executive-level dashboards and reports using BI tools such as Looker, Tableau, or similar.
- Strong business acumen to partner with data scientists and product managers and translate ambiguous questions into clear metric definitions and data models.
- Excellent communication and comfort serving as the connector between technical and business teams.
Tools you’ll use
- SQL, Python, Looker, Tableau, dbt, BigQuery, CI/CD
Bonus points
- 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 such as dbt and BigQuery.
- Experience working on monetization and/or subscription products.
Compensation
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $180,000 to $200,000 + equity + benefits.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits.
Accessibility
Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process. If you need reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know.