Staff Data Engineer (Ads)

Join Discord, a platform used by over 200 million people monthly, primarily for gaming. As a Staff Data Engineer, you will drive technical vision and strategy for data infrastructure, build and maintain data pipelines, and mentor fellow engineers. You will collaborate with data scientists, ML engineers, and product teams to implement scalable data solutions. Discord offers a flexible work model, competitive compensation, health benefits, family support, and opportunities for personal and professional growth.

• Conduire la vision technique et la stratégie pour l'infrastructure de données, tout en construisant et en maintenant des pipelines de données sophistiqués.
• Collaborer avec des scientifiques des données, des ingénieurs en apprentissage automatique et des équipes produit pour mettre en œuvre leurs exigences dans des solutions de données évolutives.
• Diriger et encadrer les ingénieurs à travers la programmation en binôme, les revues de code et la résolution collaborative de problèmes.
• If leading technical innovation, architecting scalable solutions, and empowering teams through data excites you, we encourage you to make a move!
• Collaborative mindset with intellectual curiosity and commitment to technical excellence through hands-on delivery
• Proven hands-on experience implementing and debugging data quality audits, monitoring systems, and automated remediation for massive datasets (billions+ rows)
• 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
• 7+ years of direct implementation experience designing, coding, and maintaining complex data models and systems handling structured and unstructured data sources
• Technical leadership through coding with experience mentoring engineers via 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
• Passion for solving complex problems through direct technical contribution and desire to work with exceptional engineers on challenging data infrastructure
• Strong technical communication abilities to explain complex implementations to stakeholders while thriving in rapidly-evolving technical environments
• Expert-level coding abilities in SQL, Python, and modern data engineering frameworks with demonstrated ability to write performant, maintainable, and scalable code
• 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