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Director of Engineering, Data Platform - San Francisco, CA

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📌 Director of Engineering, Data Platform — Discord

Location:

San Francisco, CA (Remote)

Job Type:

Full-time


🔍 About Discord

  • Over 200 million monthly users, primarily gamers.
  • Critical platform for social connection around gaming.
  • Focused on making communication and community engagement seamless and fun.


🎯 Role Overview

As the Director of Engineering for the Data Platform team, you will:

  • Own the strategic direction and roadmap for Discord’s data infrastructure, tools, and applications.
  • Lead and grow a high-performing engineering organization.
  • Ensure that the data platform enables data-driven decisions company-wide.
  • Combine technical leadership with organizational strategy.
  • Collaborate closely with Data+ML org, Product Engineering, Core Tech, and ML Platform teams.


🔑 Responsibilities

  • Define and drive the strategic vision and technical roadmap of the data platform.
  • Build and mentor engineering managers and teams, fostering collaboration and growth.
  • Champion software engineering best practices, data architecture, and system reliability.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams on technical decisions.
  • Drive continuous improvement and innovation within the data platform team.


Qualifications

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience.
  • 6+ years in technical leadership or management roles.
  • At least 3 years managing other managers.
  • Proven track record leading large-scale data platform teams.
  • Strong skills in distributed systems, Kafka, Spark, BigQuery, AWS/GCP/Azure.
  • Understanding of data governance, privacy, and compliance.
  • Excellent strategic thinking and communication skills.


🎁 Bonus Points

  • Experience as a senior leader/head of data platform at high-scale consumer tech companies.
  • Familiarity with Machine Learning infrastructure.
  • Experience hiring and scaling engineering teams in startups.


💰 Compensation

  • Base salary: $400,000 to $450,000 (US only)
  • Equity and benefits also included.
  • Salary depends on skills, experience, and education.


🚀 Why Discord?

  • Play a key role in shaping the future of gaming communication.
  • Lead a mission-driven, rapidly growing tech company.
  • Work remotely with a passionate, innovative team.

Job Overview

  • Job Posted

    a month ago

  • Job Types

    Full Time

  • Salary

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  • Job Location

    San Francisco, CA

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