About the Role
Discord is seeking an experienced and passionate Data Engineer, Analytics to own the transformation and semantic layer, turning data into clean, tested, and well-documented assets. You will define and operationalize metrics that inform decision-making and empower teams with reliable data.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain curated analytical datasets and data models.
- Own metric definitions end to end, from partnering with teams to define measurements to implementing and surfacing them.
- Build and maintain executive-level dashboards and self-serve reporting tools.
- Partner closely with data science, product management, and engineering teams to translate business questions into data assets.
- Establish and enforce data quality standards through testing, documentation, and monitoring.
- Drive adoption of consistent data modeling patterns, naming conventions, and documentation norms.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in analytics or data engineering with a focus on building curated, consumer-facing datasets.
- 3+ years of experience in designing, developing, and maintaining robust data models from structured and unstructured sources.
- 3+ years of experience writing accurate and effective code in SQL.
- Experience with designing data models to power 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 (e.g., Looker, Tableau, or similar).
- Strong business acumen to translate ambiguous business questions into concrete metric definitions and data models.
- Excellent communication skills, comfortable as the connective tissue between technical and business teams.
- Desire to work with amazing, passionate people who care deeply about solving challenging problems to improve Discord.
Skills
- SQL
- Python
- Version control
- CI/CD practices
- BI tools (e.g., Looker, Tableau)
- Data modeling
- Metric design
Location
- US
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3+ years
Salary/Compensations
- $180,000 to $200,000
Benefits
- Equity
- Benefits
About the Company
- Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does: play video games.
- Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games.
- 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, and helps developers build and grow their businesses.
- 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!
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
