Software Engineer, Data Products

Part of the central Data Platform organization, the Data Products team seeks to make the petabytes of data at Discord easily accessible to everyone at the company. We build full-stack applications, tooling, and frameworks to improve the productivity of teams at Discord with strong data needs, in particular our product, analytics, and machine learning teams. Our work is foundational to company and product strategy — to learn more about Discord Engineering, read our engineering blog here!

If that sounds exciting to you, read on!

What you'll be doing

• Build applications, tooling, and frameworks to improve the productivity of Discord's product, analytics, and machine learning teams, using modern technologies such as BigQuery, Airflow, Kubernetes, etc.
• Work with our analytics and data science teams to optimize data models for performant storage/retrieval and fulfill critical product and business requirements
• Work to empower internal users via training and documentation.
• Contribute to and promote data engineering and governance standards across Discord.

What you should have

• You have 2+ years of experience as a Software Engineer.
• Experience with at least one of the following languages: Python, Java, Scala.
• Experience building and deploying large-scale distributed systems
• Experience with and/or exposure to a variety of datastores (relational, NoSQL, data warehouse solutions).
• Good working knowledge of relational databases and query authoring (SQL).
• You thrive in ambiguous environments and get excited about figuring out solutions to complex problems, and then executing on them.
• You are a first principles thinker that can work with others to come up with pragmatic solutions — and then evolve and generalize them.
• You have the ability to take a high-level goal and deliver shippable code.
• You have a growth mindset — curious, eager to learn, and never afraid of asking questions.

Bonus Points

• Experience working with very high-scale data infrastructure
• Experience with data products (discovery, quality checks, etc) on Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, or Airflow
• Full-stack development or product engineering experience

New York City residents only: Minimum salary of $165,000/year + equity and benefits *Note: Disclosure as required by NYC Pay Transparency Law

Colorado residents only: Minimum salary of $132,000 /year + equity and benefits *Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085(8-5-20).

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!