Staff Software Engineer, Platform Security

🕒 January 17

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $248k - $279k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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Discord

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2015

🎮 Gaming

🌍 Social Impact

📡 Telecommunications

💰 $12G Venture Round on 2022-03

Gaming • Social Impact • Telecommunications

Discord is a communication platform designed for creating communities. Users can chat via text, voice, or video, and the platform is known for its emphasis on gaming. It provides customized experiences with features like custom emojis, stickers, and soundboard effects. Discord supports seamless streaming with high quality and low latency, making it ideal for gamers to hang out and play games together online. It is accessible across various devices including PC, phone, and console. Additionally, Discord places a high priority on safety and moderation, offering resources and guidelines for keeping communities safe and engaging. It is widely used for social interactions, gaming, and community building.

📋 Description

• Shape company-wide security strategy and lead software engineering projects on a highly-autonomous and horizontally-integrated team with a lot of leverage. This is a code-forward role! • 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 own 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.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building and operating production systems or infrastructure • 5+ years of experience writing software in a general-purpose programming language (we mainly use Python and Rust) • 4+ years of experience securing systems with millions of users • Experience mentoring junior ICs and leading technical projects involving multiple engineers and spanning multiple quarters • Experience designing and building software for customers (internal or external) beyond your immediate team • Experience securing 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) • Understanding of modern authentication and authorization concepts (e.g. RBAC, OAuth, Zero Trust network architectures, mTLS)

🏖️ Benefits

• equity • benefits