Discord · 1 month ago
Staff Software Engineer, Platform Security
San Francisco Bay Area
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$248K/yr - $279K/yr
5+ years expDiscord is a platform used by over 200 million people for gaming and community engagement. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead security initiatives and software engineering projects, focusing on reducing security risks and improving identity and access management systems.
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Responsibilities
Shape company-wide security strategy and lead software engineering projects on a highly-autonomous and horizontally-integrated team with a lot of leverage. This is a code-forward role!
Develop and apply best-in-class secure baselines for cloud infrastructure
Secure first- and third-party software supply chains, from the dev environment through CI/CD and into production
Build and own identity and access management (IAM) systems that are user-friendly and promote least privilege
Manage infrastructure vulnerabilities while supporting rapid growth for Engineering
Consult on risk assessments, architectural designs, threat models, code reviews, and more—pragmatically balancing security with other business considerations
Support IAM with scalable platform solutions (check out https://discord.com/blog/access-a-new-portal-for-managing-internal-authorization)
Build tooling to prevent and address vulnerabilities across our infrastructure
Integrate service-to-service authentication and authorization into Discord’s internal developer platform
Qualification
Required
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 mentoring junior ICs and leading technical projects involving multiple engineers and spanning multiple quarters
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)
Preferred
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
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, Salt)
Benefits
Equity
Benefits
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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