Staff Data Engineer, Analytics

Responsibilities

• Define technical strategy and architectural direction for analytics data infrastructure
• Build and maintain enterprise-scale curated datasets and data models
• Own metric definitions end to end, from stakeholder partnership to production implementation
• Design and build sophisticated data models and analytical frameworks using SQL and Python
• Develop data quality frameworks, monitoring, anomaly detection, and alerting at scale
• Drive adoption of consistent data modeling patterns, naming conventions, and metric governance
• Lead cross-functional technical initiatives and mentor engineers

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in analytics or data engineering
• 7+ years of experience designing and maintaining robust data models
• Expert-level SQL and strong Python skills
• Solid fundamentals in version control and CI/CD
• Experience implementing data quality audits and monitoring for massive datasets
• Experience building executive-level dashboards using BI tools like Looker or Tableau
• Strong business acumen and ability to translate ambiguous questions into metric definitions

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building or contributing to a semantic layer or metrics store
• Experience with dbt, BigQuery, or similar modern data stack tools
• Experience defining and governing metric standards across an organization
• Experience with reporting infrastructure subject to external audit or SOX compliance

About the Company

Discord is a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests.