Staff Software Engineer, Discord

• If you are a software engineer with a passion for security and privacy, deep curiosity, eagerness to own technically and socially complex projects, and a strong desire to improve Discord, read on!
• You have 7+ years of experience building and operating production systems and infrastructure
• You have 5+ years of experience writing software in at least one general-purpose programming language (we mainly use Python and Rust)
• You have 4+ years of experience securing systems with millions of users
• You have been the tech lead for projects involving 3+ engineers and spanning multiple quarters
• You have designed and built user-facing software for customers beyond your immediate team
• You have experience securing cloud-based environments (e.g. GCP, Cloudflare)
• You have experience with technologies for defining and orchestrating containers (e.g. OCI, Docker, Distroless, Kubernetes)
• You understand modern authentication and authorization protocols and concepts (e.g. RBAC, OAuth 2.0, OIDC/SAML, Zero Trust network architectures, mTLS)
• You have experience with build and CI/CD technologies (e.g. Bazel, Buildkite, Terraform)

Desirable

• We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer, reporting to the Platform Security Engineering Manager, to advance this mission through security expertise, software development, and operational excellence
• You’ll articulate and pursue the most leveraged opportunities to reduce security risk across Engineering, bridging organizational boundaries to create secure and lovable “paved paths” for managing identities and access, shipping code, configuring cloud infrastructure, and operating services
• Guide strategy and lead software engineering projects on a small, highly-autonomous, horizontally-integrated security team with a lot of leverage. This is a code-forward role!
• Consult on risk assessments, architectural designs, threat models, code reviews, and more—pragmatically balancing security with other business considerations
• Develop and apply best-in-class secure baselines for cloud and bare-metal resources
• Secure our software supply chain, from a developer’s laptop through version control and CI/CD and into production
• Build and own IAM systems that are user-friendly and promote least privilege
• Manage third-party vulnerabilities while supporting rapid growth for Product Engineering
• Partner cross-functionally for security monitoring and incident response
• Example Projects:
• Support IAM at Discord with scalable platform solutions
• Build automated tooling to scan our infrastructure for vulnerabilities
• Bake service-to-service authentication and authorization into Discord’s next-generation developer platform