Description
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Enforce Squad within the Safety Processing team. This team builds the infrastructure and decision systems that enable accurate, efficient, and fair content moderation at scale. The Enforce Squad is responsible for the systems that translate safety decisions into real-world actions such as bans, warnings, content removal, and legally mandated reporting.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will own high impact projects within a complex distributed system from end-to-end that help Safety at Discord scale. You will improve production services that process millions of enforcement decisions per day, including participating in the team's 24/7 on-call rotation. You will apply an adversarial mindset to enforcement systems to anticipate abuse patterns, edge cases, and failure modes in systems that must be accurate, fair, and legally compliant.
You will partner with Trust & Safety, Policy, ML, Data Science, and Legal teams to deliver enforcement changes ranging from policy updates to compliance-critical pipeline improvements. You will contribute to measurement foundations by working with Data Science to define and baseline enforcement metrics like recidivism rate, over-enforcement rate, and unintended churn.
We are looking for someone with 4+ years of professional software engineering experience with a focus on backend services and infrastructure. You should have strong programming skills in Python and experience building and operating distributed systems and production services at scaleіблі
Required skills:
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience with a focus on backend services and infrastructure
- Strong programming skills in Python
- Experience building and operating distributed systems and production services at scale
- Demonstrated ability to own projects end-to-end and deliver results on time, including in ambiguous or transitional environments
- Strong debugging skills and ability to navigate complex, multi-service codebases
- Demonstrated adversarial thinking
- Experience being in 24/7 on-call rotations
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills, including experience working across Trust & Safety, Policy, Legal, or Operations stakeholders
Preferred skills:
- Experience with content moderation, trust & safety, enforcement infrastructure, or related problem domains
- Familiarity with Rust
- Familiarity with legally mandated reporting pipelines or compliance-sensitive systems
- Experience with workflow automation or decision systems, particularly handler-based or rules-driven enforcement architectures
- Experience with observability tooling, defining SLOs, building dashboards, and instrumenting distributed systems with Datadog or similar
- A strong passion for Discord and making online communities safer