
Staff Software Engineer, Platform Security
Discord
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: California • United States
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Salary
💰 $248,000 - $279,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- 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
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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonRustcloud securityidentity and access managementinfrastructure vulnerability managementrisk assessmentarchitectural designthreat modelingCI/CDcontainer orchestration
Soft Skills
mentoringleadershipcollaborationcommunicationproject management