Senior Data Engineer (Ads)

Location: Remote within the United States

Salary: $220,500–$245,000 USD base salary annually, plus equity and benefits

Company

Discord is a multiplayer social platform centered on gaming, shared interests, and community interaction.

What you will do

• Design and own core advertising data models, canonical datasets, aggregation layers, and analytical tools for delivery, measurement, targeting, attribution, and machine learning.
• Build and maintain ML data pipelines for ad ranking, delivery, and targeting, including feature development, label generation, intra-day training, and input observability.
• Develop conversion measurement pipelines and integrate third-party attribution platforms such as Adjust, AppsFlyer, and Singular.
• Build batch and near real-time pipeline infrastructure using BigQuery, dbt, and Dagster, while partnering with Data Platform on low-latency processing engines.
• Create data quality frameworks, monitoring, automated anomaly detection, and SLA infrastructure for large-scale advertising pipelines.
• Drive technical alignment across Data Science, ML Engineering, Ads Product, and go-to-market teams, while mentoring engineers and leading complex projects.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on experience writing production code and architecting high-volume data pipelines in advertising technology.
• Deep expertise in advertising data engineering, including ad delivery, conversion measurement, attribution, or ML feature data infrastructure.
• Experience building data models in greenfield or 0-to-1 environments with changing requirements and incomplete information.
• Expert-level SQL and Python, with the ability to develop performant data models and production-quality pipeline code.
• Hands-on experience with data quality audits, monitoring, and automated anomaly detection for massive-scale datasets.
• Strong technical communication and cross-functional collaboration skills with Data Science, ML Engineering, and Product teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with Looker, Tableau, or similar data visualization and dashboarding technologies.
• Experience designing data architecture for reporting, experimentation, and ad hoc analysis.
• Experience with Data AI tools for self-service data access.
• Experience with near real-time or streaming infrastructure such as Kafka or Spark Streaming.
• Passion for Discord or gaming communities.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on advertising infrastructure supporting a gaming-focused platform used by millions of daily active users.
• Full-time employment with equity and benefits.
• Reasonable accommodations are available during the interview process.