Staff Software Engineer (Enterprise Platform)

• Discord’s Enterprise Technology org is building a software engineering discipline from the ground up, and this is the founding engineering hire
• There is no Enterprise Platform team yet
• You will not be maintaining a status quo or joining an existing backlog: you will define the discipline, set the technical foundation, and build the platform that lets the internal systems enabling Discordians scale with the company
• Discord’s mission is to cultivate belonging, and doing that at scale requires internal systems that move as fast as the product itself
• The mission of this role is to turn our enterprise infrastructure into self-service software
• Your job is to replace manual consoles and tickets with a platform of reusable primitives, building blocks like “provision a device” or “push an IAM policy or app integration through code,” exposed through clean APIs and self-service portals
• As a code-forward Staff engineer, you will design abstractions that hide the messy reality of Okta, Jamf, and Terraform (our identity, device management, and infrastructure-as-code tools) behind interfaces people actually want to use, operating with a platform-as-a-product mindset
• Manage the device fleet as code: Move device configuration off consoles and into versioned, API-driven infrastructure for endpoint management and hardware provisioning
• Automate the identity layer: Manage identity systems and their connections to downstream apps as code, from SSO and SCIM integrations to account workflows, so changes ship through version control and CI/CD instead of an admin console
• Own app delivery and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC): Build deployment pipelines and provisioning patterns that let internal systems be built and changed safely, establishing CI/CD standards
• Build the self-service layer: Design and ship the APIs, CLIs, and portals that compose primitives into paved paths, like a new hire’s first day, where software access and group memberships land in one automated, auditable flow
• Set the foundation: Define the technical direction and architecture for the discipline, writing the RFCs and documentation that future hires will build on

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!- A platform-as-a-product mindset. You have built self-service tooling that people chose to adopt
• 6+ years building and operating production software and systems at a technology company, with a track record of owning ambiguous projects end to end
• Deep, hands-on IAM experience (SSO, SCIM, OAuth/OIDC, RBAC) and fluency with infrastructure as code (Terraform) and CI/CD
• Experience treating endpoint and fleet management as an API-driven engineering surface at scale
• Strong software engineering fundamentals. You write production code (we lean on Python, TypeScript and Rust), and design, test, and ship it. This is not a systems admin role
• Comfort with ambiguity and a founder’s temperament; energized by building from scratch
• Hands-on experience with Okta, Jamf, or Intune
• Experience with identity and access governance for non-human, workload, or AI-agent principals
• Background at a high-growth consumer tech company with a highly technical employee base