# Senior Software Engineer - Safety Platform

**Company**: Discord
**Location**: San Francisco Bay Area or Los Angeles Area
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $196,000 to $220,500
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/discord/jobs/8544305002?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_76bee73f-327

## Description

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Safety Platform team. As a Senior Engineer, you will take full ownership of projects from identifying efficient solutions to gathering feedback and collaborating with cross-functional partners. You will deliver lovable products while maintaining Discord's high quality bar, utilizing 80/20 thinking and a user-centric approach.

Key Responsibilities:

- Own complex safety platform projects end-to-end, from initial design through post-launch monitoring and iteration

- Build and maintain critical safety infrastructure

- Apply an adversarial mindset to your work, thinking through security, scaling, and abuse scenarios to protect Discord's users

- Collaborate with Trust & Safety, ML, and product teams to understand requirements and deliver effective safety solutions

- Debug and resolve issues within the team's codebase and adjacent systems, participating in on-call rotations

- Break down complex projects into smaller, prioritized work streams while managing stakeholders and dependencies

- Contribute to technical design discussions and documentation, writing RFCs when necessary

- Help establish best practices and maintain the team's quality bar through code reviews and mentorship

Requirements:

- 5+ years of professional experience in a software development role, with a focus on backend services and infrastructure

- Strong programming skills in languages like Python, Rust, or TypeScript

- Experience building and operating production services at scale

- Demonstrated ability to own projects end-to-end and deliver results on time

- Experience with distributed systems concepts and cloud platforms (GCP/AWS)

- Strong debugging skills and ability to navigate complex codebases

- Experience with observability tools, metrics, and monitoring systems

- Excellent communication skills with ability to work effectively with cross-functional partners

- A quality-centered mindset with attention to the right details at every stage of development

Preferred Qualifications:

- A strong passion for Discord and gaming

- Experience tackling safety problems in collaboration with ML teams at large-scale social platforms

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Rust
- TypeScript
- Backend services
- Infrastructure
- Distributed systems
- Cloud platforms
- Observability tools
- Metrics
- Monitoring systems

### Nice to have
- Discord
- Gaming
- Machine learning
- Safety problems

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