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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.
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