Discord is focused on making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games, while ensuring a safe and compliant environment for its 200 million monthly users.
Requirements
- Strong expertise in Python and back-end API frameworks (Flask, Django).
- Strong front-end development skills with JavaScript (React, TypeScript) for web and mobile platforms.
- Significant experience in the Safety or Anti-Abuse domain with deep understanding of trust and safety challenges at scale.
- Proven track record of owning large projects end-to-end with varying degrees of ambiguity, breaking down work into well-prioritized milestones with clear dependencies.
- Demonstrated ability to make independent technical decisions that balance short-term needs with long-term sustainability and scalability.
- Experience driving engineering excellence: setting quality standards, conducting thorough code reviews, and applying an adversarial mindset to identify security, performance, and scaling issues.
- Experience using metrics and dashboards (e.g., Datadog, Mode, Faros) to make data-driven decisions and monitor system health.
Responsibilities
- Lead development of high-impact, user-facing safety products that deliver measurable results for Discord's users.
- Own complex, multi-milestone projects end-to-end, identifying optimal solutions, navigating ambiguity and making independent technical decisions.
- Design, build, and deploy robust production APIs, backend services, and data pipelines that enable safety features to scale efficiently.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, Policy, Data Science, ML, Legal, and Trust & Safety Operations to create solutions that are both impactful and lovable.
- Drive engineering excellence by mentoring others and guiding the team through architectural challenges to ensure long-term scalability.
- Respond rapidly to the ever-evolving abuse and compliance landscape with strategic thinking and swift execution.
Other
- Candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties).
- 8+ years of relevant industry experience, with demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality, high-impact work on complex projects.
- Strong communication skills with ability to provide high-quality technical feedback, drive alignment across stakeholders, and facilitate productive debates that lead to clear decisions.
- Relocation assistance may be available.
