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Lead Software Engineer - Data Platform
4 years ago
Discord is one of few places that combine who you play games with and how you play those games. We use this data to make Discord the best place to play games with your friends.
Lead our Data Platform team to build a scalable data platform that powers features and informs teams. Help us build scalable distributed systems like you'd construct additional pylons in your base. You build those in your sleep, amirite?
What you'll be doing
- Lead multiple squads that comprise our data infrastructure group. You'll get to work with a really high-powered team that owns a large set of infrastructure systems:
- Logging & Data Ingestion
- Streaming & Batch processing
- Machine Learning infrastructure
- Data Tools & Interfaces
- Build the platform that empowers our Data Science, Machine Learning & Analytics teams, as well as powers product features used by millions of users every day.
- Own and operate our entire data stack using modern technologies such as Apache Beam, Kafka, Pub/Sub and Airflow.
- Build efficient scalable solutions on top of GCP and AWS using Python, Scala and Go.
What you should have
- Minimum of 4 years experience building scalable backend systems.
- Experience leading diverse engineering teams and delivering on high-impact projects.
- Experience working on, and deploying, large-scale systems in Python or Go, Scala/Java, or other similar languages.
- Experience working with and operating production data systems such as Kafka, Storm or Spark.
- Love to work with high volume heterogenous data and distributed systems.
- Self-motivation and the ability to take a high-level goal and deliver shippable code.
Bonus Points
- Proven track record of working with petabyte-scale data infrastructure. Discord has plenty of it.
- Experience working with varied data applications and databases, such as Hadoop, BigQuery, Spark or Redshift.
- Expert knowledge of SQL, MapReduce and/or statistics scripting tools (i.e. R).
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics or a related field.
- Godlike pylon construction skills.
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