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Discord Inc. Staff Software Engineer - Safety Experience
Experience: 8-years
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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.As a Staff Engineer on the Safety Experience team, you'll be a technical leader who autonomously delivers real business impact on large, ambiguous projects. You'll design and build product features and systems that prevent harmful activities at scale while ensuring regulatory compliance. This role requires both deep technical expertise and the ability to be a force multiplier for your team: driving engineering excellence, making solid technical decisions, and remaining a top code contributor. You'll work cross-functionally to shape the technical direction of safety initiatives that protect hundreds of millions of Discord users. This role reports to the Engineering Manager of Safety Experience. What You'll Be Doing Lead development of high-impact, user-facing safety products that deliver measurable results for Discord's users. Own complex, multi-milestone projects end-to-end, identifying optimal solutions, navigating ambiguity and making independent technical decisions. Design, build, and deploy robust production APIs, backend services, and data pipelines that enable safety features to scale efficiently. Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, Policy, Data Science, ML, Legal, and Trust & Safety Operations to create solutions that are both impactful and lovable. Drive engineering excellence by mentoring others and guiding the team through architectural challenges to ensure long-term scalability. Respond rapidly to the ever-evolving abuse and compliance landscape with strategic thinking and swift execution. What you should have 8+ years of relevant industry experience, with demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality, high-impact work on complex projects. Strong expertise in Python and back-end API frameworks (Flask, Django). Strong front-end development skills with JavaScript (React, TypeScript) for web and mobile platforms. Significant experience in the Safety or Anti-Abuse domain with deep understanding of trust and safety challenges at scale. Proven track record of owning large projects end-to-end with varying degrees of ambiguity, breaking down work into well-prioritized milestones with clear dependencies. Demonstrated ability to make independent technical decisions that balance short-term needs with long-term sustainability and scalability. Experience driving engineering excellence: setting quality standards, conducting thorough code reviews, and applying an adversarial mindset to identify security, performance, and scaling issues. Strong communication skills with ability to provide high-quality technical feedback, drive alignment across stakeholders, and facilitate productive debates that lead to clear decisions. Experience using metrics and dashboards (e.g., Datadog, Mode, Faros) to make data-driven decisions and monitor system health. Ability to be a force multiplier for your team by mentoring others, establishing best practices, and helping teammates grow their skills. Bonus Points Familiarity with databases such as Cassandra, Postgres, or ScyllaDB. Experience with real-time streaming systems like Kafka or Pub-Sub. Track record of building and operating native mobile features on iOS and Android. Experience designing and implementing monitoring strategies and on-call/on-point processes for production systems. Knowledge of lower-level languages such as Go, Rust, or Elixir.   Candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties). Relocation assistance may be available.The US base salary range for this full-time position is $248,000 to $279,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits.Why Discord? Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests. 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! Your future is just a click away! Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process. We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know. Please see our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy for details regarding Discord’s collection and usage of personal information relating to the application and recruitment process by clicking HERE.

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