Senior Data Engineer
Join Discord as a Staff Data Engineer to lead the analytics data infrastructure and drive technical strategy for trusted datasets.
Posted by employer 4 months ago
First seen on Joblaze 4 months ago
Last verified on the company career page 6 hours ago
Requirements
- Experience
- 7+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: work arrangement, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In the role of Staff Data Engineer, Analytics at Discord, the individual will lead the development of the analytical data infrastructure, ensuring the creation of reliable and well-documented datasets for internal and external stakeholders. Key skills include expertise in SQL and Python, along with experience in data modeling and quality assurance for large datasets. This position is ideal for seasoned professionals with a strong background in data engineering and analytics, particularly those who can navigate complex technical challenges and collaborate across teams.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about 4 months ago — first seen on Joblaze May 16, 2026. Last confirmed on Discord's careers page October 9, 2026.
- Salary band is above the typical range for Data Engineering roles (median ~$180,656).
- Starts above 71% of 21 comparable staff data engineering roles in United States that list Python we track (median $212,000 across 13 companies). See Python salary trends
- Python appears in 46.3% of 54 comparable staff data engineering roles in United States; Looker appears in 3.7% of 54 comparable staff data engineering roles in United States.
Quick facts
- What's the salary range?
- Discord lists $248,000–$279,000 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 7 years of relevant experience for this Senior Data Engineer role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: BigQuery, Looker, Python, SQL, Tableau, dbt.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Discord targets staff-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Data Engineer role at Discord.
From the original posting
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.
This position is US based only.
Discord is looking for Senior Data Engineers to join our world class Data team. Data Engineers at Discord work with data science, machine learning, and engineering teams to build the foundational datasets behind our tools, analyses, and models. The data you build directly shapes how we find opportunities, measure success, and make product and business decisions. We are hiring for multiple verticals including Gaming Intelligence and GRC. If this sounds exciting to you and you’re passionate about data, impact, and working on an amazing team, read on!
What you will be doing:
- Own the data models and pipelines for a functional area end to end, from design through implementation and adoption
- Build and maintain foundational datasets that power analytics, modeling, experimentation, and the dashboards and reports teams rely on
- Design data architectures for massive, complex data, balancing usability, performance, and cost
- Partner with data science, ML, and engineering teams to improve the coverage, accuracy, and reliability of instrumentation
- Build data quality audits at scale, with alerting and anomaly detection where needed
- Find and act on opportunities to improve pipeline and dashboard performance and cost
- Drive adoption of your work through documentation and enablement, and share what you learn with teammates
What you should have
- 4+ years of experience building and operating production data pipelines with high volumes of consumer data
- Strong data modeling skills across structured and unstructured sources
- Proficiency in SQL and Python, with a focus on correct, performant, maintainable code
- Experience implementing and monitoring data quality checks on very large datasets (e.g. billions of rows)
- A track record of owning complex projects end to end: breaking them into phases and balancing speed, usability, and risk
- Clear communication and stakeholder management skills, and comfort working on problems that are ambiguous and change quickly
- A collaborative approach and natural curiosity
Bonus Points:
- Passion for Discord or online communities
- Experience with BigQuery, Airflow, and dbt, or similar tools
- Experience with Looker, Tableau, or similar dashboarding tools
- Experience designing data architecture for experimentation, creating frameworks that scale instead of one-off solutions
- Experience mentoring other engineers or setting data engineering standards for a team
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $220,500 to $245,000 + 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?
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