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Senior Analytics Engineer

Discord

San Francisco, CA or Remote (U.S.)

2 years ago

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Discord is looking for experienced and passionate data engineers to join our Data team! As one of the early data engineers at Discord, you’ll have an outsized impact on our data foundations. Data Engineers at Discord collaborate with data science and engineering teams to design, build, and scale high-leverage datasets that enable analytics, modeling, and experimentation. These critical datasets directly inform how we identify opportunities, measure success, and drive decision making. If this sounds exciting to you and you’re passionate about data, impact, and working on an amazing team, read on! Check out our blog here!

What you'll be doing

Create and maintain data pipelines and foundational datasets to support analytics, modeling, experimentation, and product/business needs
Design and build database architectures with massive and complex data, balancing ergonomic benefits with computational load and cost
Collaborate closely with data science and engineering teams to improve the coverage, accuracy, and reliability of instrumentation
Develop audits for data quality at scale, implementing alerting and anomaly detection as necessary
Create scalable dashboards and reports to support business objectives and enable data-driven decision making
Partner with data scientists, engineers, and product teams to accomplish all of the above!

You'll Thrive In This Role If (not hard qualifications - if you're not sure, please apply!)

4+ years of experience building data pipelines in production with deep knowledge of performant scalable patterns
4+ years of experience in designing, developing, and maintaining robust data models from structured and unstructured sources
4+ years of experience writing accurate and effective code in SQL and Python
Experience implementing and monitoring audits for data quality with massive data sets (e.g. billions of rows)
Experience proactively identifying opportunities to improve ETL & dashboard performance and cost
Experience leveraging your excellent communication skills to thrive in ambiguous environments where problems are not well-defined and evolve quickly
A desire to work with amazing, passionate people who care deeply about solving challenging problems to improve Discord. Last but not least - a collaborative attitude and a healthy dose of natural curiosity!

Bonus Points

Passion for Discord or online communities
Experience owning and proactively improving the data models for a functional area
Experience collaborating directly with data science and product engineering teams
Experience with modern data storage and processing technologies (i.e. BigQuery SQL, Looker, Airflow, and DBT or similar)
Experience with designing data architecture to power a variety of use cases, including experimentation

New York City residents only: Minimum salary of $205,300 year + equity and benefits
*Note: Disclosure as required by NYC Pay Transparency Law

Colorado residents only: Minimum salary of $164,800 year + equity and benefits
*Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085(8-5-20).

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Benefits and Perks

Comprehensive medical insurance including Health, Dental and Vision (plus up to $20,000 for gender affirmation procedures)
Mental health resources and quarterly wellness stipends
16+ paid holidays, 4 weeks of PTO + use-what-you-need sick days
Paid parental leave (plus fertility, adoption and other family planning benefits)
Flexible long-term work options (remote and hybrid)
Volunteer time off
A diverse slate of Employee Resource Groups
Plus commuter contributions and other perks for office-based employees

About Us

Discord is a voice, video and text app that helps friends and communities come together to hang out and explore their interests — from artists and activists, to study groups, sneakerheads, plant parents, and more. With 150 million monthly users across 19 million active communities, called servers, Discord has grown to become one of the most popular communications services in the world. Discord was built without selling ads or user data and instead, offers a premium subscription called Nitro that gives users special perks like higher quality streams and fun customizations.

We’re working toward an inclusive world where no one feels like an outsider, where genuine human connection is a click, text chat, or voice call away. A place where everyone can find belonging. Challenging? Heck yes. Rewarding? Double heck yes. It’s a mission that gives us the chance to positively impact millions of people all over the world. So if this strikes a chord with you, come build belonging with us!

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