Data Scientist, Analytics - Safety Response

1 Month ago • 2 Years + • Data Analysis • $140,000 PA - $157,500 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Discord is seeking a P1 Data Scientist for its Safety Analytics team, focusing on transparency, safety, and regulatory compliance. This role requires exceptional technical depth to handle precision analytics, legal data requests, and safety incident response. The Data Scientist will be responsible for responding to legal data requests with precision and speed, driving compliance-based transparency reporting for regulations like the EU Online Safety Act, and identifying/building scalable solutions for recurring data needs. They will also collaborate with Adaptive Data teams on safety incident response, diagnose abuse trends, develop precise business metrics, and partner with Data Engineering teams on production codebases. The ideal candidate must have strong SQL skills, at least 2 years of experience with large datasets in a production environment, proficiency in spreadsheets and dashboarding tools, excellent attention to detail, and strong documentation skills.
Must have:
  • Strong SQL skills
  • 2+ years of experience with large datasets
  • Proficiency with spreadsheets/dashboarding tools
  • Experience developing precise business metrics
  • Strong attention to detail
  • Technical curiosity
  • Excellent documentation skills
Good to have:
  • Experience with data governance, compliance, or legal analytics
Perks:
  • Equity
  • Benefits
  • Relocation assistance

Job Details

Discord is used by over 200 million people every month for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does on our platform: play video games. Over 90% of our users play games, spending a combined 1.5 billion hours playing thousands of unique titles on Discord each month. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games.

This position will be located in the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties).

As a P1 Data Scientist on Discord's Safety Analytics team, you'll play a critical role in supporting Discord's commitment to transparency, safety, and regulatory compliance. This specialized position focuses on precision analytics, legal data requests, and safety incident response - requiring exceptional technical depth and attention to detail. If you're passionate about using data to build trust and safety in online communities, this role offers a unique opportunity to make a direct impact on Discord's mission.

What You'll Be Doing

  • Respond to legal and litigation data requests with exceptional precision and speed, ensuring accurate and comprehensive data delivery that meets strict legal standards
  • Drive compliance-based transparency reporting including voluntary disclosures, EU Online Safety Act requirements, and emerging regulatory frameworks
  • Identify and build scalable solutions for recurring legal and compliance data needs, transforming manual processes into efficient, automated workflows
  • Collaborate closely with Adaptive Data teams on safety incident response, diving deep into complex data patterns to diagnose spam waves, abuse trends, and platform safety issues
  • Develop highly precise business metrics with exceptional attention to detail, providing accurate metric definitions and bulletproof SQL queries that withstand legal scrutiny
  • Partner with Data Engineering teams in production codebases, contributing technical solutions and ensuring data infrastructure meets compliance requirements

What you should have

  • Strong SQL skills with experience writing complex, performant queries against large datasets
  • 2+ years of experience working with large, complex data sets in a production environment
  • Proficiency with spreadsheets and dashboarding tools (Excel, Google Sheets, Tableau, Looker, or similar)
  • Experience developing precise business metrics with strict accuracy requirements and clear documentation
  • Strong attention to detail and ability to work under pressure while maintaining exceptional quality standards
  • Technical curiosity and willingness to dive deep into codebases, working alongside engineering teams
  • Excellent documentation skills for creating clear, defensible metric definitions and processes
  • Experience with data governance, compliance, or legal analytics (preferred but not required)

Candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties). Relocation assistance may be available.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $140,000 to $157,500 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits.

Why Discord? 

Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Your future is just a click away!

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About The Company

Discord is a voice, video and text platform that helps friends come together to hang out, play games and have fun. When Jason Citron and Stanislav Vishnevskiy founded Discord in 2015 they had a hunch that multiplayer gaming would be the future of entertainment and that people would need a communications platform designed for them to talk with their gaming friends. Today, gaming has become the largest form of entertainment in the world, bigger than movies and music combined. It’s the fastest-growing as well. Discord makes it feel like you’re playing in the same room with friends.

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