Discord

Staff Software Engineer, Platform Security

Discord

full-time

Posted on:

Location Type: Remote

Location: CaliforniaUnited States

Visit company website

Explore more

AI Apply
Apply

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
  • benefits 📊 Check your resume score for this job Improve your chances of getting an interview by checking your resume score before you apply. Check Resume Score
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
PythonRustcloud securityidentity and access managementinfrastructure vulnerability managementrisk assessmentarchitectural designthreat modelingCI/CDcontainer orchestration
Soft Skills
mentoringleadershipcollaborationcommunicationproject management