# Senior Software Engineer, Application Security

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

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## Description

Discord is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join its Application Security team. The successful candidate will help protect Discord's users, particularly their accounts. The role involves designing and implementing full-stack, user-facing security solutions for hundreds of millions of users.

### Responsibilities

- Join an engineering team designing and implementing full-stack, user-facing security solutions that protect hundreds of millions of Discord users.

- Lead full-stack work to strengthen session security and authentication for Discord's users.

- Improve, operate, and maintain security-critical authentication services, owning their correctness and security.

- Partner with Product teams to drive adoption of stronger authentication and to ship user-facing account security tools.

- Identify and design solutions for emerging threats to user account security.

- Research and implement new security capabilities for the Discord platform, staying current on the authentication and session security landscape.

- Build security controls and tools that emphasize self-service, automation, and performance to help identify and mitigate account security flaws.

### Requirements

- 5+ years of experience securing production applications.

- 3+ years of experience programming in at least one general-purpose programming language (e.g., Python, Go, Java, or Rust).

- Hands-on experience building and shipping production software, including security features, controls, frameworks, or guardrails.

- Hands-on experience with authentication and account security, such as WebAuthn, passkeys, FIDO2, MFA, and session management.

- Comfortable reasoning about the security of complex systems, even if they contain components you're not familiar with, and can give engineers clear, sound guidance on secure design and implementation.

- Experience leading security projects with a cross-functional group.

- Experience building or hardening client applications, such as desktop or native mobile apps.

- Experience operating in cloud-based environments (Discord uses Google Cloud).

### Nice to Have

- Experience programming in at least one systems programming language (e.g., C, C++).

- Experience developing, operating, and debugging production systems.

- Familiarity with common application vulnerabilities on the platforms Discord ships on.

### Compensation

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $196,000 to $220,500 + equity + benefits.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Go
- Java
- Rust
- WebAuthn
- passkeys
- FIDO2
- MFA
- session management
- cloud-based environments
- Google Cloud

### Nice to have
- C
- C++
- production systems
- application vulnerabilities

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