Discord is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership and mentorship for the Safety Platform team, ensuring the scalability, reliability, and effectiveness of safety systems that protect millions of users daily. The role aims to address complex challenges in adversarial abuse, harmful content detection, and evolving threat vectors to maintain a safe environment for Discord users, particularly gamers.
Requirements
- Strong programming skills in languages like Python, Rust, Typescript
- Experience designing and deploying scalable services using components such as PubSub, GCP/AWS, and Kubernetes
- Experience with large-scale distributed systems serving millions of users, including deployment tools and infrastructure automations like Terraform
- Experience scaling and migrating systems with little to no downtime
- Experience driving a culture of operational excellence, with a deep understanding of metrics, alerts, and dashboards
- Experience tackling safety problems in collaboration with ML teams at large-scale social platforms
Responsibilities
- Serve as a technical lead and mentor, guiding ICs through design, experimentation, and implementation while raising the technical bar
- Define and drive Safety Platform’s technical strategy and roadmap
- Set the bar in technical reviews, including code, design, and architecture, ensuring the team builds scalable, robust, and high-quality systems
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, data science, policy, legal, and engineering partners to align on safety goals and deliver effective solutions
- Tackle the most complex and high-impact challenges in safety, including adversarial abuse, harmful content detection, and evolving threat vectors
- Influence the company’s direction on safety, clearly communicating trade-offs and technical constraints to senior leadership and stakeholders
Other
- 8+ years of professional experience in an infrastructure focused software development role
- Experience leading projects on cross-team and company-wide scale
- Experience mentoring engineers at various stages in their careers
- 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).
- A strong passion for Discord and gaming
