Discord is focused on making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games. The Platform Security Engineering team aims to protect the systems used to create Discord, making the 'secure way' the 'easy way.' The Senior Engineer will help reduce security risk across Engineering by designing and delivering technical solutions for managing identities and access, shipping code, configuring cloud infrastructure, and operating services.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building and operating production systems or infrastructure
- 3+ years of experience writing software in a general-purpose programming language (we mainly use Python, Typescript, and Rust)
- 3+ years of experience securing systems with millions of users
- Experience designing and building software for customers (internal or external) beyond your immediate team
- Experience securing multi-cloud environments (e.g. GCP, Cloudflare, AWS)
- Experience defining and orchestrating containers (e.g. via Kubernetes, Docker, Distroless, OCI)
- Familiarity with build and CI/CD technologies (e.g. Terraform, Bazel, Buildkite)
Responsibilities
- Own software engineering projects end-to-end on a highly-autonomous and horizontally-integrated team with a lot of leverage.
- Develop and apply best-in-class secure baselines for cloud infrastructure.
- Secure first- and third-party software supply chains, from the dev environment through CI/CD and into production.
- Build and operate identity and access management (IAM) systems that are user-friendly and promote least privilege.
- Manage infrastructure vulnerabilities while supporting rapid growth for Engineering.
- Consult on risk assessments, architectural designs, threat models, code reviews, and more—pragmatically balancing security with other business considerations.
- Support IAM with scalable platform solutions.
Other
- Understanding of modern authentication and authorization concepts (e.g. RBAC, OAuth, Zero Trust network architectures, mTLS)
- Developed and debugged distributed systems atop GCP and Cloudflare
- Led complex migrations or risk management programs across an engineering organization
- Built or operated a service mesh (e.g. Envoy, Istio)
- Managed and secured VMs or bare-metal hosts (e.g. Linux, Salt)
