Discord is looking to advance its mission of empowering people to find belonging by ensuring security and privacy for its platform and users. The company needs to make it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games, while protecting user data and systems.
Requirements
- You have 7+ years of experience building and operating production systems and infrastructure.
- You have 5+ years of experience writing software in at least one general-purpose programming language (we mainly use Python and Rust).
- You have 4+ years of experience securing systems with millions of users.
- You have experience securing cloud-based environments (e.g. GCP, Cloudflare).
- You have experience with technologies for defining and orchestrating containers (e.g. OCI, Docker, Distroless, Kubernetes).
- You have experience with build and CI/CD technologies (e.g. Bazel, Buildkite, Terraform).
- You understand modern authentication and authorization protocols and concepts (e.g. RBAC, OAuth 2.0, OIDC/SAML, Zero Trust network architectures, mTLS).
Responsibilities
- Guide strategy and lead software engineering projects on a small, highly-autonomous, horizontally-integrated security team with a lot of leverage. This is a code-forward role!
- Consult on risk assessments, architectural designs, threat models, code reviews, and more—pragmatically balancing security with other business considerations.
- Develop and apply best-in-class secure baselines for cloud and bare-metal resources.
- Secure our first- and third-party software supply chains, from a developer’s laptop through version control and CI/CD and into production.
- Build and own IAM systems that are user-friendly and promote least privilege.
- Manage third-party vulnerabilities while supporting rapid growth for Product Engineering.
- Partner cross-functionally for security monitoring and incident response.
Other
- You have been the tech lead for projects involving 3+ engineers and spanning multiple quarters.
- You have designed and built user-facing software for customers beyond your immediate team.
- You have a system to discover industry tools that can multiply your team’s impact.
- You have led complex migrations or risk management programs across an engineering organization.
- Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process.
