Data Engineer – Analytics

About the role

Discord is seeking an experienced Data Engineer focused on analytics to own the transformation and semantic layer that powers clean, well-documented tables and dashboards for data scientists, product managers and business stakeholders. You will design, build and maintain curated analytical datasets that enable reliable, self-serve insights across the company.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain curated analytical datasets and data models that serve as canonical sources for metrics, dashboards and analyses.
• Own metric definitions end-to-end, from definition with product and data science teams to implementation and visualization.
• Develop and maintain executive-level dashboards and self-serve reporting tools.
• Partner with data science, product and engineering teams to translate business questions into performant, discoverable data assets.
• Establish and enforce data quality standards through testing frameworks, documentation and monitoring.
• Drive adoption of consistent data modeling patterns, naming conventions and documentation across the data organization.

Required profile

• 3+ years of experience in analytics or data engineering with a focus on consumer-facing datasets.
• 3+ years designing, developing and maintaining robust data models from structured and unstructured sources.
• 3+ years of experience writing accurate SQL code.
• Strong business acumen and ability to translate ambiguous questions into concrete metric definitions.
• Excellent communication skills and comfort acting as the bridge between technical and business teams.

Required skills

• SQL
• Python
• Git (version control)
• CI/CD practices
• Data modeling
• Data quality testing frameworks
• BI tools such as Looker or Tableau