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About the Role
Discord is seeking a seasoned technical leader to drive the technical vision and strategy for its analytical data infrastructure. This role focuses on transforming and semantically layering data to create trusted, self-serve datasets that inform internal decisions and underpin externally reported metrics, requiring exceptional rigor, auditability, and precision. The position involves close collaboration with Data Governance, Data Science, Product, Finance, and Engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Define technical strategy and architectural direction for analytics data infrastructure.
- Build and maintain enterprise-scale curated datasets and data models.
- Own the design and implementation of data governance programs end to end.
- Partner with stakeholders to translate policy requirements into flexible and configurable infrastructure.
- Design and build sophisticated data abstractions and analytical frameworks using SQL, Python, and modern data stack technologies.
- Develop data quality frameworks, monitoring, anomaly detection, and alerting at massive scale.
- Implement governance, lineage tracking, and change management rigor appropriate for externally reported numbers.
- Drive adoption of consistent data modeling patterns, naming conventions, documentation norms, and metric governance standards.
- Lead cross-functional technical initiatives across product verticals.
- Mentor engineers to accelerate delivery and harden data systems.
- Navigate ambiguity and make sound technical decisions with incomplete information.
- Balance short-term delivery with long-term infrastructure investment.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in data and software engineering with a strong focus on building curated, consumer-facing datasets.
- 7+ years of experience in designing, developing, and maintaining data infrastructure used by data teams at scale.
- Expert-level SQL and strong Python skills.
- Solid fundamentals in version control and CI/CD.
- Proven experience implementing data quality audits, monitoring systems, and automated remediation for massive datasets.
- Strong business acumen and communication skills.
- Comfortable translating ambiguous business questions into concrete metric definitions.
- Ability to explain complex implementations to diverse audiences.
- Track record of hands-on collaboration with Data Science, Finance, and Product teams.
Skills
- SQL
- Python
- Version Control
- CI/CD
- Data Governance
- Data Modeling
- Data Quality Audits
- Monitoring Systems
- Automated Remediation
- Semantic Layer
- Metrics Store
- dbt
- BigQuery
Location
- US
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Staff
- 7+ years
Salary/Compensations
- $279,000 to $310,000
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.