Staff Data Engineer, Ads

18 Minutes ago • 7 Years + • $248,000 PA - $279,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Discord is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to join its Data team, focusing on advertising products. This role involves driving technical vision and strategy for data infrastructure, building and maintaining sophisticated data pipelines, datasets, and analytical tools. The engineer will lead cross-functional initiatives to transform advertising products through data-driven insights and mentor fellow engineers, contributing to a platform used by over 200 million people monthly, primarily for gaming.
Must have:
  • Create and maintain complex, enterprise-scale data pipelines and foundational datasets for advertising products
  • Define 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 at massive scale
  • Collaborate with data scientists, ML engineers, and product teams to implement 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
  • 7+ years of hands-on experience writing production code and architecting data pipelines with high-volume consumer data in advertising or marketing technology domains
  • Expert-level coding abilities in SQL, Python, and modern data engineering frameworks
  • Digital advertising data engineering expertise with hands-on experience building high-throughput data pipelines for ad serving, conversion tracking, advertising measurement, or integrating third-party advertising data
  • Proven hands-on experience implementing and debugging data quality audits, monitoring systems, and automated remediation for massive datasets
  • Strong technical communication abilities to explain complex implementations to stakeholders
Good to have:
  • 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
Perks:
  • Equity
  • Benefits
  • Inclusive community
  • Reasonable accommodations during the interview process
  • Opportunity to deepen friendships around games and shared interests

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.

Discord, an inclusive community for all, seeks a seasoned technical leader to join our Data team as a Staff Data Engineer, focusing on our advertising products. In this role, you will drive technical vision and strategy for data infrastructure while building and maintaining sophisticated data pipelines, datasets, and analytical tools. You will lead cross-functional initiatives to transform our advertising products through data-driven insights and mentor fellow engineers to deliver exceptional results.

If leading technical innovation, architecting scalable solutions, and empowering teams through data excites you, we encourage you to make a move!

What You'll Be Doing

  • 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

What you should have

  • 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

Bonus Points

  • 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

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!

Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process. We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know.

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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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