Staff Software Engineer, Platform Security
$248k/y-$279k/y
Discord2 months ago
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OnsiteFull-timeSenior
Summary
Discord is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Platform Security to join their team in the San Francisco Bay Area. The role focuses on enhancing security through software development and operational excellence.
About the Role
As a Staff Software Engineer, Platform Security, you will shape the company-wide security strategy and lead software engineering projects. Your responsibilities include developing secure baselines for cloud infrastructure, securing software supply chains, managing identity and access management systems, and consulting on risk assessments and architectural designs.
About You
Required:
- 5+ years of experience building and operating production systems or infrastructure.
- 5+ years of experience writing software in a general-purpose programming language (mainly Python and Rust).
- 4+ years of experience securing systems with millions of users.
- Experience mentoring junior ICs and leading technical projects involving multiple engineers.
- Experience securing cloud environments (e.g. GCP, Cloudflare, AWS).
- Experience defining and orchestrating containers (e.g. via Kubernetes, Docker).
- Understanding of modern authentication and authorization concepts (e.g. RBAC, OAuth).
Preferred:
- Experience developing and debugging distributed systems atop GCP and Cloudflare.
- Led complex migrations or risk management programs across an engineering organization.
- Experience securing multi-cloud environments.
- Built or operated a service mesh (e.g. Envoy, Istio).
- Managed and secured VMs or bare-metal hosts (e.g. Linux).
Benefits
- Base salary range of $248k–$279k + equity + benefits.
- Comprehensive benefits package including health coverage.
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 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! Take a look at https://discordapp.com/jobs for openings.
San Francisco Bay Area