Staff Software Engineer, Platform Security
About the role
About Discord
Discord is used by over 200 million people every month. Over 90% of our users play games, spending a combined 1.5 billion hours playing thousands of unique titles on Discord each month. Discord is about empowering people to find belonging in all kinds of communities, and those people trust us to keep their communications safe.
The Role
The Platform Security Engineering team protects the systems we use to create Discord, making the "secure way" the "easy way." We're looking for a Staff Engineer to advance this mission through security expertise, software development, and operational excellence. In this technical leadership role, you'll articulate and pursue the most leveraged opportunities to reduce security risk across Engineering, designing and building lovable "paved paths" for managing identities and access, shipping code, configuring cloud infrastructure, and operating services.
What You'll Do
- Shape security strategy and technical direction across the platform
- Design and build systems for identity and access management
- Reduce security risk across engineering teams
- Lead technically and socially complex security projects
- Improve security and privacy at Discord