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Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games.\nDiscord is looking for a Staff Data Engineer to join our Data Engineering team and partner with Consumer Revenue. Our mission is to make it easy for all users to discover, understand, buy, and keep Premium Products on Discord. In this role, you will set technical direction for the data systems that support Nitro, Shop, server monetization and gifting, and other consumer revenue experiences. You will build reliable data foundations that help teams understand performance, run experiments, and make better product and business decisions.\nYou’ll work closely with Data Science, Product, Finance, Data Platform, and engineering partners. If you’re excited to lead complex data engineering work, raise the quality of shared data products, and help a high-velocity consumer business grow, read on.\nWhat You'll Be Doing\nSet technical direction for Consumer Revenue data engineering: identify foundational gaps, define scalable architectures and standards, and lead high-impact initiatives from design through adoption.\nDesign and own canonical data models and datasets for consumer monetization, including subscriptions and subscriber states, purchases and payments, Shop, gifting, and Orbs. Make these assets reliable, well-documented, and useful across product analytics, financial reporting, experimentation, and decision-making.\nBuild and evolve production data pipelines that transform source events and transactional data into accurate, trusted data products. Balance freshness, reliability, cost, and maintainability across batch and, where the use case calls for it, lower-latency processing.\nPartner with Data Science, Product, Finance, and engineering teams to define and operationalize important business metrics-including subscriber, revenue, booking, retention, and product usage measures-and ensure definitions are consistent across reporting and experimentation.\nStrengthen the data foundations behind high-velocity product work and revenue growth. Translate ambiguous questions into robust models, metrics, and analytical capabilities that help teams size opportunities, evaluate launches, and learn from experiments.\nEstablish data quality, testing, monitoring, and documentation practices for the data assets you own. Pay particular attention to accuracy, freshness, auditability, and edge cases in subscription, payment, and commerce data.\nImprove self-service analytics by maintaining a discoverable semantic layer, reusable data models, and clear guidance that let partner teams answer common questions with less bespoke support. Contribute to AI-assisted analytics workflows where they can make data access more useful and dependable.\nWork closely with upstream Data Platform and downstream Data Science partners to align on interfaces, data contracts, and operational expectations; communicate trade-offs and risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nMentor data engineers through design and code reviews, technical guidance, and ownership of complex projects. Raise the bar for engineering quality and help teams adopt consistent data modeling and documentation practices.\nWhat You Should Have\n7+ years of experience building and operating production data pipelines and data products, including significant hands-on ownership of architecture and implementation.\nExpert-level SQL and strong Python skills, with experience writing maintainable, tested production code.\nA track record of designing robust data models from large-scale event, product, or transactional data and making them usable for analytics, reporting, and experimentation.\nExperience setting technical direction across complex projects, identifying systemic data problems, and delivering solutions that multiple teams can rely on.\nStrong data quality instincts, including experience with testing, monitoring, data freshness, documentation, and the investigation of metric discrepancies.\nExperience with modern data engineering tools and workflows (for example, dbt, BigQuery, Dagster, or equivalent), version control, and CI/CD practices.\nExperience partnering with Data Science, Product, Finance, and Engineering to turn ambiguous business questions into clear metric definitions and dependable data products.\nExcellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to build alignment, explain technical trade-offs, and earn trust across teams.\nA desire to work with thoughtful, passionate people who care deeply about solving challenging problems to improve Discord.\nBonus Points:\nPassion for Discord or online communities\nExperience with subscription, payments, e-commerce, virtual currency, or other consumer monetization data.\nExperience building data products for experimentation, causal measurement, or product launch evaluation.\nExperience developing a semantic layer, metrics store, or self-service analytics platform.\nExperience with streaming or near-real-time data systems, or improving the reliability and observability of critical pipelines.\nExperience with AI-assisted analytics or tools that help teams safely discover and use trusted data.\nPassion for Discord, gaming, or online communities.\nThe base salary range for this full-time position is listed below. This position will also be eligible for equity and benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits.\nBase Salary\n$248,000—$310,000 USD\nWhy Discord? \nDiscord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests, and helps developers build and grow their businesses. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Your future is just a click away!\nDiscord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process. We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know.\nPlease see our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy for details regarding Discord’s collection and usage of personal information relating to the application and recruitment process by clicking HERE.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6913,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":7,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Online Forums & Community Platforms","Messaging Apps","Social Networks"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-08-10T17:56:48Z"},{"event":"close","at":"2026-10-13T19:30:15Z"},{"event":"reopen","at":"2026-10-26T18:59:49Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 29 · green card filings: 6","filings_12m":29,"filings_prev_12m":32,"green_card_filings_12m":6,"median_offered_wage_usd":254071,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-29T16:27:21+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)","US Department of Labor: PERM disclosure data (green cards)"],"filings_for_role_12m":12}],"liveness":{"score":28,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":1,"p_active":0.779,"p_room":0.36,"age_days":85,"expected_fill_days":57,"reasons":["conf:1","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-11-04T06:34:25Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":310000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/cow-dao-staff-data-engineer-data-infrastructure","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/cow-dao-staff-data-engineer-data-infrastructure.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-04T11:01:16Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":16351,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-05T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1167},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1167"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fcow-dao-staff-data-engineer-data-infrastructure"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fcow-dao-staff-data-engineer-data-infrastructure"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fcow-dao-staff-data-engineer-data-infrastructure"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/cow-dao-staff-data-engineer-data-infrastructure\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fcow-dao-staff-data-engineer-data-infrastructure"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":50149}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"discord.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":50149},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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