Discord · 4 hours ago
Staff Data Engineer, Ads
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$248K/yr - $279K/yr
7+ years expDiscord is a platform used by over 200 million people for gaming and community engagement. They are seeking a Staff Data Engineer to lead technical vision and strategy for their advertising products, focusing on building and maintaining data infrastructure and pipelines while mentoring fellow engineers.
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Responsibilities
Create and maintain complex, enterprise-scale data pipelines and foundational datasets while defining technical strategy and architectural direction for advertising products
Design and build sophisticated ETL processes, data models, and analytical frameworks using SQL, Python, and modern data stack technologies
Develop data quality frameworks, monitoring systems, automated anomaly detection, and alerting infrastructure that operates at massive scale
Collaborate with data scientists, ML engineers, and product teams, directly implementing their requirements into scalable, maintainable data solutions
Drive cross-functional technical initiatives solving sophisticated data engineering challenges
Create scalable dashboards and reports to support business objectives and enable data-driven decision making
Lead and mentor engineers through pair programming, code reviews, and collaborative problem-solving
Qualification
Required
7+ years of hands-on experience writing production code and architecting data pipelines with high-volume consumer data in advertising or marketing technology domains
7+ years of direct implementation experience designing, coding, and maintaining complex data models and systems handling structured and unstructured data sources
Expert-level coding abilities in SQL, Python, and modern data engineering frameworks with demonstrated ability to write performant, maintainable, and scalable code
Digital advertising data engineering expertise with hands-on experience building high-throughput data pipelines for ad serving, conversion tracking, advertising measurement, or integrating and normalizing third-party advertising data from external platforms and partners
Proven hands-on experience implementing and debugging data quality audits, monitoring systems, and automated remediation for massive datasets (billions+ rows)
Technical leadership through coding with experience mentoring engineers via pair programming, code reviews, and collaborative problem-solving
Strong technical communication abilities to explain complex implementations to stakeholders while thriving in rapidly-evolving technical environments
Passion for solving complex problems through direct technical contribution and desire to work with exceptional engineers on challenging data infrastructure
Collaborative mindset with intellectual curiosity and commitment to technical excellence through hands-on delivery
Preferred
Passion for Discord or gaming in general
Hands-on collaboration experience implementing solutions with data science, ML engineering, and product teams through direct technical contribution
Hands-on integration experience implementing connections with external data sources, APIs, and third-party advertising platforms
Experience with modern data storage and processing technologies (BigQuery SQL, Airflow, Dagster, DBT, or similar)
Experience with data visualization and dashboarding technologies (Looker, Tableau, or similar)
Experience with designing data architecture to power a variety of use cases, including experimentation
Benefits
Equity
Benefits
Company
Discord
Discord is an online voice, video, and text communication platform designed for creating communities.
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (48)
2024 (32)
2023 (13)
2022 (18)
2021 (5)
2020 (2)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$995.41MKey Investors
Flat CapitalDragoneer Investment GroupSony Interactive Entertainment
2024-03-01Secondary Market
2022-11-22Series I
2022-03-12Secondary Market· $10.86M
Leadership Team
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Board Member & Advisor to the CEO
Stanislav Vishnevskiy
CTO & Co-Founder
Recent News
Spark Capital
2025-12-31
General Catalyst
2025-12-26
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