Discord · 8 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer - Safety Experience
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$196K/yr - $220K/yr
5+ years expDiscord is a platform used by over 200 million people for gaming and socializing. As a Senior Engineer on the Safety Experience team, you'll lead the development of features and systems to ensure user safety and compliance, collaborating with various teams to deliver impactful solutions.
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Responsibilities
Lead development of highly‑visible, user‑facing products that protect Discord's users
Design, build, and deploy robust production APIs, backend services, and data pipelines to launch safety features at scale
Collaborate cross‑functionally with Product, Design, Policy, Data Science, ML, Legal, and T&S Operations to create solutions that are both impactful and lovable
Iterate on in-house tooling to supercharge our T&S workflows
Respond rapidly to the ever‑evolving abuse and compliance landscape
Qualification
Required
5+ years experience writing Python and utilizing back-end API frameworks (Flask, Django)
5+ years experience developing front-end interfaces with JavaScript (React, TypeScript) for both web and mobile platforms
Familiarity with databases such as Cassandra, Postgres, and ScyllaDB
Demonstrated success leading end‑to‑end delivery of complex projects: breaking down ambiguity, coordinating rollouts, and aligning stakeholders
Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot, debug, and test complex systems in a live, production environment
Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work well with cross-functional partners, designers, and other engineers
Experience using metrics and dashboards to make data-driven decisions and develop insightful reports
Preferred
Experience in the Safety or Anti‑Abuse domain
Experience analyzing and visualizing data using Datadog or Mode
Familiarity with real‑time streaming systems like Kafka or Pub-Sub
Ability to contribute to offline analytics jobs and processes
Experience building and operating mobile‑client features on iOS and Android
Exposure to lower‑level languages such as Go, Rust, and Elixir
A strong moral compass that drives you to protect users and do the right thing
Benefits
Equity
Benefits
Company
Discord
Discord is an online voice, video, and text communication platform designed for creating communities.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$995.41MKey Investors
Flat CapitalDragoneer Investment GroupSony Interactive Entertainment
2024-03-01Secondary Market
2022-11-22Series I
2022-03-12Secondary Market· $10.86M
Leadership Team
Stanislav Vishnevskiy
CTO & Co-Founder
Mike Polner
VP, Global Head of Marketing
Recent News
2026-01-11
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