Discord · 3 months ago
Staff Software Engineer, Platform Security
San Francisco Bay Area
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$248K/yr - $279K/yr
7+ years expDiscord is a platform used by over 200 million people every month, primarily for gaming and communication. They are seeking a Staff Security Engineer to lead software engineering projects and enhance security measures across their systems, focusing on reducing security risks and improving user experience.
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Responsibilities
Guide strategy and lead software engineering projects on a small, highly-autonomous, horizontally-integrated security team with a lot of leverage
Consult on risk assessments, architectural designs, threat models, code reviews, and more—pragmatically balancing security with other business considerations
Develop and apply best-in-class secure baselines for cloud and bare-metal resources
Secure our first- and third-party software supply chains, from a developer’s laptop through version control and CI/CD and into production
Build and own IAM systems that are user-friendly and promote least privilege
Manage third-party vulnerabilities while supporting rapid growth for Product Engineering
Partner cross-functionally for security monitoring and incident response
Qualification
Required
7+ years of experience building and operating production systems and infrastructure
5+ years of experience writing software in at least one general-purpose programming language (we mainly use Python and Rust)
4+ years of experience securing systems with millions of users
You have been the tech lead for projects involving 3+ engineers and spanning multiple quarters
You have designed and built user-facing software for customers beyond your immediate team
You have experience securing cloud-based environments (e.g. GCP, Cloudflare)
You have experience with technologies for defining and orchestrating containers (e.g. OCI, Docker, Distroless, Kubernetes)
You have experience with build and CI/CD technologies (e.g. Bazel, Buildkite, Terraform)
You understand modern authentication and authorization protocols and concepts (e.g. RBAC, OAuth 2.0, OIDC/SAML, Zero Trust network architectures, mTLS)
Preferred
You have a system to discover industry tools that can multiply your team's impact
You have experience securing multi-cloud environments
You have developed and debugged distributed systems atop GCP and Cloudflare
You have built and operated a service mesh (e.g. Envoy, Istio)
You have managed and secured VMs and bare-metal hosts (e.g. Linux, Salt)
You have designed and applied Kubernetes security policies (e.g. OPA Gatekeeper, Kyverno)
You have led complex migrations or risk management programs across an engineering organization
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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
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Board Member & Advisor to the CEO
Stanislav Vishnevskiy
CTO & Co-Founder
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