Senior Software Engineer (Safety Experience)

• As a Senior Engineer on the Safety Experience team, you’ll lead the charge in making Discord’s platform safer for hundreds of millions of users
• You’ll design, build, and maintain product features and systems that prevent harmful activities while ensuring regulatory compliance. Keeping users safe is essential for Discord’s growth, making your team’s work critical
• This role reports to the Engineering Manager of Safety Experience
• Lead development of highly‑visible, user‑facing products that protect Discord’s users
• Design, build, and deploy robust production APIs, backend services, and data pipelines to launch safety features at scale
• Collaborate cross‑functionally with Product, Design, Policy, Data Science, ML, Legal, and T&S Operations to create solutions that are both impactful and lovable
• Iterate on in-house tooling to supercharge our T&S workflows
• Respond rapidly to the ever‑evolving abuse and compliance landscape

Benefits

• Discord HQ: At Discord, we believe great work can happen anywhere, whether in person or virtually. Our flexible work model empowers our people to choose where they work best: at home, in one of our offices like our San Francisco HQ, or a mix of both.
• Grow together: Look forward to developing both professionally and personally alongside your colleagues at Discord. All of our managers go through a leadership program, and we offer enriching trainings for everyone. No matter what your interests or skills are, there’s a place on our platform for you to find and build belonging.
• Money matters: Discord strives to offer fair and competitive compensation packages, including equity. You’ll have room to grow and be rewarded based on your contributions and impact at the company. Take advantage of our retirement offerings (including 401k matching in the US) to meet your financial goals.
• Health benefits; At Discord, we health-care about you! We offer medical, dental, vision, reproductive, gender-affirming, and mental healthcare to our employees.
• Family support: Spend some quality time with the next generation with 12+ weeks parental leave, as well as fertility, adoption, and surrogacy benefits.
• R&R: Stay refreshed with four weeks of PTO, 16 paid holidays each year including a week off for the winter holidays, and flexible sick time (which includes mental health days).
• Wellness on us: Take advantage of a $375 quarterly stipend for your gym membership or other activities to keep you feeling great.
• Giving back: Whatever social cause you’re passionate about, take a day (or two) off to make an impact. While you’re at it, take advantage of $1,000/year in donation matching to charitable organizations!- Experience using metrics and dashboards to make data-driven decisions and develop insightful reports
• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work well with cross-functional partners, designers, and other engineers
• Familiarity with databases such as Cassandra, Postgres, and ScyllaDB
• 5+ years experience writing Python and utilizing back-end API frameworks (Flask, Django)
• Demonstrated success leading end‑to‑end delivery of complex projects: breaking down ambiguity, coordinating rollouts, and aligning stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot, debug, and test complex systems in a live, production environment
• 5+ years experience developing front-end interfaces with JavaScript (React, TypeScript) for both web and mobile platforms
• A strong moral compass that drives you to protect users and do the right thing
• Exposure to lower‑level languages such as Go, Rust, and Elixir
• Experience building and operating mobile‑client features on iOS and Android
• Ability to contribute to offline analytics jobs and processes
• Familiarity with real‑time streaming systems like Kafka or Pub-Sub
• Experience analyzing and visualizing data using Datadog or Mode
• Experience in the Safety or Anti‑Abuse domain