Senior Software Engineer, Application SecurityActive$196K–$245K

The opportunity

Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does: play video games. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on…

What you'll do

  • Join an engineering team designing and implementing full-stack, user-facing: security solutions that protect hundreds of millions of Discord users.

  • Lead full-stack work to strengthen session security and authentication for Discord’s users.

  • Improve, operate, and maintain security-critical authentication services,: owning their correctness and security.

  • Partner with Product teams to drive adoption of stronger authentication and: to ship user-facing account security tools.

  • Identify and design solutions for emerging threats to user account security.

  • Research and implement new security capabilities for the Discord platform,: staying current on the authentication and session security landscape.

What they're looking for

  • Build security controls and tools that emphasize self-service, automation,: and performance to help identify and mitigate account security flaws.
  • You have 5+ years of experience securing production applications.
  • You have 3+ years of experience programming in at least one general-purpose: programming language (e.g., Python, Go, Java, or Rust).
  • You have hands-on experience building and shipping production software,: including security features, controls, frameworks, or guardrails.