Discord

Discord is used by over 200 million people every month for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does on our platform: play video games. Over 90% of our users play games, spending a combined 1.5 billion hours playing thousands of unique titles on Discord each month. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games. We are seeking an accomplished and experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our dynamic team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining our data infrastructure and services. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including data engineers, data scientists, software engineers, and product managers, to deliver modern and bleeding-edge solutions that drive business insights and innovation. This role reports to our Director of Engineering, Data Platform. To learn more about Discord’s Data Platform, read our engineering blog — including how we built our modern data stack leveraging open-source tools! This position is based in our San Francisco office. What You'll Be Doing - Define and execute the technical vision for Discord's data platform, enabling scalable, reliable, and performant data systems. - Design, implement, and optimize data infrastructure to process and analyze petabytes of data across millions of users. - Develop innovative data architectures to support analytics, machine learning, and operational insights. - Build monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure the health and performance of data services. - Partner with data scientists, data engineers, product managers, and leadership to align technical solutions with business goals. - Promote and drive best practices in data governance, security, and compliance across the organization. - Provide technical leadership, mentor junior engineers, and foster a culture of excellence and continuous improvement. - Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies in data platform. What You Should Have - 5+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on large-scale distributed systems or data infrastructure. - Expertise in building and maintaining scalable data platforms, including data ingestion pipelines, stream processing, and batch processing systems. - Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, Rust, or similar. - Proficiency with open source data projects and experience working with open source communities. - Hands-on experience with modern data technologies such as Kafka, Spark, Flink, Airflow/Dagster, or similar. - Deep understanding of database systems (e.g., SQL, NoSQL, columnar storage) and data modeling principles. - Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), containerization tools (Docker, Kubernetes), and microservices architecture. - Excellent communication skills with a d

Discord is used by over 200 million people every month for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does on our platform: play video games. Over 90% of our users play games, spending a combined 1.5 billion hours playing thousands of unique titles on Discord each month. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games. Every day, hundreds of millions of gamers gather on Discord to hang out, strategize their next raid, celebrate tournament victories, and build communities around the games they love. Behind every voice channel, every streamer Go Live, every Quest completed, there's data, petabytes of it, telling the story of how people connect through gaming. We're looking for someone who gets excited about building data infrastructure at massive scale and cares deeply about the gaming communities we serve. Someone with passion for building lovable products for Discord users and Discord engineers. We’re building the next generation Data Platform that powers decisions for one of the most vibrant platforms in the world. If you're the kind of Software Engineer who lights up when talking about distributed systems, cares deeply about user privacy, grounding decisions in data, and wants your work to directly impact millions of gamers worldwide, we want to talk to you. To learn more about Discord’s Data Platform, read our engineering blog, including how we built our modern data stack leveraging open-source tools! What You'll Be Doing - Build and maintain data infrastructure processing petabytes of data across millions of users - Write clean, well-tested code for data ingestion, transformation, and serving systems - Own projects end-to-end with guidance from senior engineers. From design through deployment and production support - Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and product teams to deliver solutions that power Discord's insights What You Should Have - 3+ years of software engineering experience with strong programming skills in Python, Java, Rust, Go, or similar - Solid CS fundamentals and demonstrated ability to quickly learn new technologies and ramp up on unfamiliar systems - Proven debugging skills and growth mindset. You seek feedback and continuously improve - Strong collaboration skills and ability to clearly explain technical concepts to different audiences Bonus Points - Passion for Discord and gaming - Experience with the data ecosystem: pipelines, ETL, modeling, or warehousing (Kafka, Spark, Flink, Airflow, Dagster, SQL, etc.) - Cloud infrastructure knowledge (AWS, GCP, Azure) or containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) 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). Relocation assistance may be available. The US base salary range for this full-time position is $160,000 to $180,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined

Discord is used by over 200 million people every month for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does on our platform: play video games. Over 90% of our users play games, spending a combined 1.5 billion hours playing thousands of unique titles on Discord each month. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games. We're looking for a Privacy Engineer to join us in protecting the data of Discord's users and enabling great experiences through responsible data use. We build systems to meet the privacy expectations of our users and enable other teams at Discord to do the same. If you are an engineer with a passion for privacy, a deep sense of curiosity, and an endless desire to improve Discord for our users, read on! What you will do: - Ensure user privacy is upheld across all aspects of Discord, from data collection and processing through to deletion. - Develop technical tools and solutions that advance privacy at Discord, like enhancing privacy review processes through code and dataflow analysis and enforcing data minimization. - Partner with cross-functional teams, including Engineering, Product, Data, and Legal, to conduct risk assessments, code and design reviews, and ensure compliance with Discord’s Privacy Principles and regulatory requirements. - Analyze privacy incidents for root causes and work with security and platform teams to ensure we are monitoring for new privacy risks. What you have: - A passion for user privacy and data protection. - 1+ years experience protecting user data and user privacy through tools or processes, such as code review, data mapping, and static analysis. You are familiar with privacy enhancing technologies. - You have a working knowledge of privacy by design and industry applications of consent, data deletion, and retention. - You can ship code in at least one general programming language (such as Python, JavaScript, Go, or Rust) Bonus Points: - You are familiar with privacy threat models like LINNDUN - You have experience applying statistical privacy techniques like k-anonymization - You are familiar with using modern AI tooling to gain leverage in your work - Experience developing, operating, and debugging distributed systems. - Experience with modern cloud and data platform infrastructure - Experience integrating internal systems with privacy and risk management platforms The US base salary range for this full-time position is $160,000 to $180,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits. Why Discord? Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listenin

Discord is used by over 200 million people every month for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does on our platform: play video games. Over 90% of our users play games, spending a combined 1.5 billion hours playing thousands of unique titles on Discord each month. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games. Discord is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to build high-performance, cross-platform client software that powers experiences for 200+ million users worldwide. You'll work on core libraries that run across Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS—writing native code using platform-specific APIs to provide optimal experiences wherever people use Discord. As a Senior Software Engineer on our A/V Client team, you'll tackle challenging performance problems, design systems that scale across diverse hardware configurations, and build the foundation that enables real-time experiences for millions of concurrent users. What you'll be doing: - Build core libraries that power Discord's client experiences across desktop, browser, and mobile platforms (Rust, C++, and Typescript) - Optimize performance end-to-end across all supported platforms - Design and run experiments with proper success criteria and statistical rigor to validate improvements - Debug complex issues across diverse hardware and platform configurations - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ship features that delight millions of users What you should have: - 4+ years building large-scale, cross-platform software (Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, or game console development) - Strong Rust or C++ skills with deep understanding of memory management, multi-threading, and low-level optimization - Experience building performance-critical applications where milliseconds matter Bonus points: - Experience designing experiments that prove (not just suggest) improvements - Experience with real-time media applications (audio/video, game streaming, etc.) - Hands-on experience with WebRTC, SDP, SRTP, or DTLS protocols - Familiarity with audio/video codecs (Opus, H.264, AV1, etc.) and their corresponding quality measurements (POLQA, PSNR, VMAF, etc.) - Proficiency with CPU, GPU, and memory profiling—you can identify bottlenecks, optimize critical paths, and manage resource constraints effectively - You have built or contributed to open source projects 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). For this role, the hiring manager would like folks to be in the office 1 day a week. Relocation assistance may be available. The US base salary range for this full-time position is $196,000 to $245,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits. &lt

Discord is used by over 200 million people every month for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does on our platform: play video games. Over 90% of our users play games, spending a combined 1.5 billion hours playing thousands of unique titles on Discord each month. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games. We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Safety Processing team. This team plays a crucial role in ensuring trust and safety across Discord, processing signals from user reports and automated systems to identify and remove harmful or illegal content from our platform. You’ll lead backend projects, provide architectural guidance, and help build scalable systems that protect our users. Your work will directly impact the safety of our platform and help make Discord a place where everyone can belong. To learn more about Discord Engineering, take a look at our engineering blog. What You'll Be Doing: - Lead, design, and build scalable backend systems for processing safety-related signals, primarily using Python - Guide and mentor the team through architectural and system design challenges, ensuring long-term scalability as Discord continues to grow - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build tools for content moderation and related compliance efforts. This includes in house solutions and vendors - Implement and enhance ML/AI models and automation to improve efficiency in content moderation and decision-making processes - Build solutions with an adversarial mindset, anticipating and addressing safety challenges such as malicious behavior and illegal content on the platform - Drive workstreams and provide leadership to the team, mobilizing others to accomplish projects and deliver impactful outcomes What We Look For: - Python Expertise : Extensive experience developing and maintaining backend systems using Python - Architectural Leadership : Strong system design and architecture skills with the ability to build scalable, reliable systems for content moderation with an emphasis on large scale projects, programs, or initiatives measured in quarters or years - Leadership in Execution : Ability to define workstreams, lead projects, and guide other engineers through implementation - Adversarial Mindset: Experience in a domain that required an adversarial mindset such as trust, safety, security, or privacy - On-Call Experience: Experience being in a 24/7 on-call rotation for production systems Bonus Points: - Experience working with ML/AI models in content moderation - Familiarity with Typescript/Javascript/React and frontend technologies - Familiarity with Rust - Previous experience at companies with a strong focus on safety, security, or trust & safety This position is US-based only. We are seeking candidates located in the Los Angeles area (Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, or Ventura Counties) or the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties). Relocation assistance may be available to the San Francisco Bay Area. This role requires either one week per month in a Los Angeles co-working space, or two days per week at our San Francisco Bay Area office. The US base salary range for this full-time position is $248,000 to $310,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits. Why Discord? Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Your future is just a click away! Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process. We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know. Please see our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy for details regarding Discord’s collection and usage of personal information relating to the application and recruitment process by clicking HERE.

Discord is used by over 200 million people every month for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does on our platform: play video games. Over 90% of our users play games, spending a combined 1.5 billion hours playing thousands of unique titles on Discord each month. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games. As a Staff Engineer on the Safety Experience team, you'll be a technical leader who autonomously delivers real business impact on large, ambiguous projects. You'll design and build product features and systems that prevent harmful activities at scale while ensuring regulatory compliance. This role requires both deep technical expertise and the ability to be a force multiplier for your team: driving engineering excellence, making solid technical decisions, and remaining a top code contributor. You'll work cross-functionally to shape the technical direction of safety initiatives that protect hundreds of millions of Discord users. This role reports to the Engineering Manager of Safety Experience . What You'll Be Doing - 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. What you should have - 8+ years of relevant industry experience, with demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality, high-impact work on complex projects. - 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. - Strong communication skills with ability to provide high-quality technical feedback, drive alignment across stakeholders, and facilitate productive debates that lead to clear decisions. - Experience using metrics and dashboards (e.g., Datadog, Mode, Faros) to make data-driven decisions and monitor system health. - Ability to be a force multiplier for your team by mentoring others, establishing best practices, and helping teammates grow their skills. - Experience utilizing AI tools like Claude Code and Cursor to supercharge dev workflows Bonus Points - Familiarity with databases such as Cassandra, Postgres, or ScyllaDB. - Experience with real-time streaming systems like Kafka or Pub-Sub. - Track record of building and operating native mobile features on iOS and Android. - Experience designing and implementing monitoring strategies and on-call/on-point processes for production systems. - Knowledge of lower-level languages such as Go, Rust, or Elixir. This position is US-based only. We are seeking candidates located in the Los Angeles area (Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, or Ventura Counties) or the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties). Relocation assistance may be available to the San Francisco Bay Area. This role requires either one week per month in a Los Angeles co-working space, or two days per week at our San Francisco Bay Area office. The US base salary range for this full-time position is $248,000 to $310,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits. Why Discord? Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Your future is just a click away! Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process. We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know. Please see our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy for details regarding Discord’s collection and usage of personal information relating to the application and recruitment process by clicking HERE.

Discord is used by over 200 million people every month for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does on our platform: play video games. Over 90% of our users play games, spending a combined 1.5 billion hours playing thousands of unique titles on Discord each month. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games. We are looking for a highly technical, creative, hands-on, and impact-focused Senior Software Engineer to join our growing Ads team. Our team is revolutionizing the way users interact with our platform through innovative ad formats (including Quests ). We are driven by a passion for delivering exceptional user experiences while scaling our platform to new heights. These products enable us to generate revenue by building a win-win-win suite of distribution tools for game developers, players, and Discord. Join us in shaping the future of digital advertising and marketplace interactions! To learn more about Discord Engineering, take a look at our engineering blog ! What you'll be doing - Design, build and maintain new Ads products and infrastructure from the backend to frontend. Collaborate with both engineers on and off the team - from our Revenue Infrastructure and Core Tech teams to our Machine Learning and Data Science teams. - Be a strategic partner with engineering, product, and cross-functional leadership in designing, developing, and scaling digital advertising features that drive revenue growth and enhance user engagement. - Architect simple and maintainable systems to enable us to launch quickly and iterate while sustaining a high product and technical quality bar. - Model strong ownership by acting autonomously when possible and looping in others to build confidence on critical questions. Introduce coding and operational best practices to the team; always be learning and teaching. - Own projects end to end — you’ll be responsible for working with Product and other stakeholders to refine requirements, creating technical designs and specs, implementing changes, and seeing projects through to launch and maintenance. What you should have - A focus on impact. You have a sharp eye for what changes can bring a product from good to great. You collaborate closely with product managers, designers, analysts, and other engineers to define great solutions to business problems. - A sense of ownership. You believe in solving a problem completely rather than simply shipping a solution. You operate autonomously and follow through on your commitments. - A growth mindset. You view mistakes as learning opportunities and build upon your successes. You challenge yourself and those around you to continuously improve. - A love of mentorship. Helping fellow engineers, providing feedback and guidance on system architecture, API design, data modeling, and tradeoffs. - 4+ years of experience, with 2 years in relevant roles. Bonus Points - Expertise with Python and/or Rust, Typescript, React, React Native - Familiarity with experimentation and analysis - Contributions to open-source projects - Interest or passion for the Discord platform The US base salary range for this full-time position is $196,000 to $245,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits. Why Discord? Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Your future is just a click away! Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process. We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know. Please see our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy for details regarding Discord’s collection and usage of personal information relating to the application and recruitment process by clicking HERE.

Discord is used by over 200 million people every month for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does on our platform: play video games. Over 90% of our users play games, spending a combined 1.5 billion hours playing thousands of unique titles on Discord each month. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games. The Safety Processing team builds the infrastructure and decision systems that enable accurate, efficient, and fair content moderation at scale. Keeping our users safe is foundational to everything we do. The Enforce Squad is a newly formed squad within Safety Processing, responsible for the systems that translate safety decisions into real-world actions such as bans, warnings, content removal, and legally mandated reporting. These systems touch every user who violates policy and every piece of content that gets actioned. We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer who can take ownership of complex, critical infrastructure and help us stabilize, scale, and evolve Discord's enforcement systems. What you will do: - Own high impact projects within a complex distributed system from end-to-end that help Safety at Discord scale. - Improve production services that process millions of enforcement decisions per day, including participating in the team's 24/7 on-call rotation. - Apply an adversarial mindset to enforcement systems to anticipate abuse patterns, edge cases, and failure modes in systems that must be accurate, fair, and legally compliant. - Partner with Trust & Safety, Policy, ML, Data Science, and Legal teams to deliver enforcement changes ranging from policy updates to compliance-critical pipeline improvements. - Contribute to measurement foundations by working with Data Science to define and baseline enforcement metrics like recidivism rate, over-enforcement rate, and unintended churn. What you should have: - 4+ years of professional software engineering experience with a focus on backend services and infrastructure. - Strong programming skills in Python - Experience building and operating distributed systems and production services at scale ( use GCP, PostgreSQL, Redis, Pub/Sub, KKV, and gRPC). - Demonstrated ability to own projects end-to-end and deliver results on time, including in ambiguous or transitional environments. - Strong debugging skills and ability to navigate complex, multi-service codebases. Many of our systems have deep interdependencies. - Demonstrated adversarial thinking. The ability to anticipate misuse, edge cases, and system vulnerabilities in systems that bad actors are actively trying to circumvent - Experience being in 24/7 on-call rotations. - Excellent collaboration and communication skills, including experience working across Trust & Safety, Policy, Legal, or Operations stakeholders. - Using Gen AI products, like Claude Code, as part of your daily workflow. Bonus Points: - Experience with content moderation, trust & safety, enforcement infrastructure, or related problem domains. - Familiarity with Rust - Familiarity with legally mandated reporting pipelines or compliance-sensitive systems. - Experience with workflow automation or decision systems, particularly handler-based or rules-driven enforcement architectures. - Experience with observability tooling, defining SLOs, building dashboards, and instrumenting distributed systems with Datadog or similar. - A strong passion for Discord and making online communities safer. This position is US-based only. We are seeking candidates located in the Los Angeles area (Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, or Ventura Counties) or the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties). Relocation assistance may be available to the San Francisco Bay Area. This role requires either one week per month in a Los Angeles co-working space, or two days per week at our San Francisco Bay Area office. The US base salary range for this full-time position is $196,000 to $220,500 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits. Why Discord? Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Your future is just a click away! Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process. We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know. Please see our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy for details regarding Discord’s collection and usage of personal information relating to the application and recruitment process by clicking HERE.

Discord is used by over 200 million people every month for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does on our platform: play video games. Over 90% of our users play games, spending a combined 1.5 billion hours playing thousands of unique titles on Discord each month. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games. The Safety Platform team is at the heart of keeping Discord safe for all users. We provide the infrastructure and services that enable scalable and reliable safety on Discord. We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer who is capable of handling ambiguous, complex, multi-milestone projects. Our team developed Osprey , the open-source investigation and incident response tool that allows safety teams to understand what is happening on their platforms and take actions at scale. Osprey has since been open-sourced and donated to ROOST , reflecting our commitment to industry-wide safety improvements. As a Senior Engineer on Safety Platform, you'll take full ownership of projects from identifying efficient solutions to gathering feedback and collaborating with cross-functional partners. You'll deliver lovable products while maintaining Discord's high quality bar, utilizing 80/20 thinking and a user-centric approach. You'll embody a growth mindset, diving into new code and technologies to deliver safety solutions that protect millions of users daily. What You'll Be Doing - Own complex safety platform projects end-to-end, from initial design through post-launch monitoring and iteration - Build and maintain critical safety infrastructure - Apply an adversarial mindset to your work, thinking through security, scaling, and abuse scenarios to protect Discord's users - Collaborate with Trust & Safety, ML, and product teams to understand requirements and deliver effective safety solutions - Debug and resolve issues within the team's codebase and adjacent systems, participating in on-call rotations - Break down complex projects into smaller, prioritized work streams while managing stakeholders and dependencies - Contribute to technical design discussions and documentation, writing RFCs when necessary - Help establish best practices and maintain the team's quality bar through code reviews and mentorship What you should have - 5+ years of professional experience in a software development role, with a focus on backend services and infrastructure - Strong programming skills in languages like Python, Rust, or TypeScript - Experience building and operating production services at scale - Demonstrated ability to own projects end-to-end and deliver results on time - Experience with distributed systems concepts and cloud platforms (GCP/AWS) - Strong debugging skills and ability to navigate complex codebases - Experience with observability tools, metrics, and monitoring systems - Excellent communication skills with ability to work effectively with cross-functional partners - A quality-centered mindset with attention to the right details at every stage of development Bonus Points - A strong passion for Discord and gaming - Experience tackling safety problems in collaboration with ML teams at large-scale social platforms This position is US-based only. We are seeking candidates located in the Los Angeles area (Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, or Ventura Counties) or the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties). Relocation assistance may be available to the San Francisco Bay Area. This role requires either one week per month in a Los Angeles co-working space, or two days per week at our San Francisco Bay Area office. The US base salary range for this full-time position is $196,000 to $245,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits. Why Discord? Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Your future is just a click away! Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process. We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know. Please see our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy for details regarding Discord’s collection and usage of personal information relating to the application and recruitment process by clicking HERE.