JobPosting
title: Engineering Manager, Platform Security
description: Discord is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of software engineers in articulating and pursuing opportunities to reduce security risk across Engineering. The team will design and build 'paved paths' for managing identities and access, shipping code, configuring cloud infrastructure, and operating services. Responsibilities You will shape company-wide security strategy and lead a highly-autonomous team of software engineers who will: Build and operate identity and access management (IAM) systems for humans and machines that are user-friendly and promote least privilege Secure first- and third-party software supply chains, from development environment through CI/CD and into production Develop and apply best-in-class secure baselines for cloud infrastructure Manage infrastructure vulnerabilities while supporting a high-velocity engineering organization with hundreds of developers Consult on risk assessments, architectural designs, threat models, code reviews, and more – pragmatically balancing security with other business considerations Requirements 3+ years of experience as a people manager, having managed a team of 3+ security software engineers Passion for creating diverse and inclusive teams and coaching engineers Comfort with writing the roadmap, not just following one 3+ years of experience securing systems with millions of users Expert reasoning about the security of complex systems, even if they contain unfamiliar components Experience building in and securing cloud-based environments (using GCP, Cloudflare, and AWS) Experience writing software in a general-purpose programming language (using Python, Typescript, and Rust) Experience developing with agentic AI, and a good grasp of AI security practices Nice to Have Understanding of modern authentication and authorization concepts (e.g., RBAC, OAuth, Zero Trust network architectures, mTLS) Familiarity with build and CI/CD technologies (e.g., Terraform, Bazel, Buildkite, Spacelift) Experience defining …
date posted: 2026-07-28T12:07:50.776Z
valid through: 2026-10-02T14:03:24.224Z
direct apply: false
occupational category: Engineering
industry: Technology
skills: cloud-based environments
skills: general-purpose programming languages
skills: agentic AI
skills: security strategy
skills: team management
skills: modern authentication and authorization concepts
skills: build and CI/CD technologies
skills: container orchestration
skills: security platforms
hiring organization: Discord
job location: Place
  address: PostalAddress
    address locality: San Francisco Bay Area
    address country: US
employment type: FULL_TIME
base salary: MonetaryAmount
  currency: USD
  value: QuantitativeValue
    min value: 248000
    max value: 310000
    unit text: YEAR