Staff Software Engineer, Platform Security

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.

More broadly, Discord is about empowering people to find belonging in all kinds of communities, and those people trust us to keep their communications safe. Our 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 lova