Staff Software Engineer, Platform Security
$248,000–$279,000 year
Remote · San Francisco, California, United States or New York City, New York, United States
Job Summary
In this Staff Software Engineer role, you will lead software engineering projects focused on enhancing security across systems at Discord. Responsibilities include shaping the company-wide security strategy, developing secure baselines for cloud infrastructure, securing software supply chains, and managing identity and access management systems. Key qualifications include a minimum of 5 years in production systems, proficiency in Python and Rust, and experience with cloud environments and modern authentication frameworks. Additionally, the position offers a competitive salary ranging from $248,000 to $279,000, along with equity and benefits.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience building and operating production systems or infrastructure
- 5+ years of experience writing software in a general-purpose programming language (we mainly use Python and Rust)
- 4+ years of experience securing systems with millions of users
- Experience designing and building software for customers (internal or external) beyond your immediate team
- Experience securing cloud environments (e.g. GCP, Cloudflare, AWS)
- Experience defining and orchestrating containers (e.g. via Kubernetes, Docker, Distroless, OCI)
- Familiarity with build and CI/CD technologies (e.g. Terraform, Bazel, Buildkite)
- Understanding of modern authentication and authorization concepts (e.g. RBAC, OAuth, Zero Trust network architectures, mTLS)
Desired Qualifications
- Experience mentoring junior ICs
- Experience securing multi-cloud environments
- Developed and debugged distributed systems atop GCP and Cloudflare
- Led complex migrations or risk management programs across an engineering organization
- A system to discover industry tools that can multiply your team’s impact
- Built or operated a service mesh (e.g. Envoy, Istio)
- Managed and secured VMs or bare-metal hosts (e.g. Linux, Salt)
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