Engineering Manager - Platform Security & IAM

Discord; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 248,000 - 310,000; Full time

Job summary

Discord is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of software engineers focused on reducing security risk across the platform. You’ll own technically and socially complex projects and shape security strategy to enable safe, scalable growth.

You will build identity and access management, secure software supply chains, and secure cloud infrastructure while guiding a high-velocity org with hundreds of developers. Join a security-forward culture at Discord.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience as a people manager leading 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 with unfamiliar components.
• Experience building in and securing cloud-based environments (GCP, Cloudflare, AWS).
• Experience writing software in Python, TypeScript, and Rust.
• Experience developing with agentic AI, and a good grasp of AI security practices.

Responsibilities

• Shape company-wide security strategy and lead a highly-autonomous security engineering team.
• Build and operate IAM systems for humans and machines.
• Secure software supply chains from development through production.
• Develop secure baselines for cloud infrastructure.
• Manage infrastructure vulnerabilities while supporting a high-velocity engineering org.
• Provide risk assessments, architectural designs, and threat models.

Skills

People management

Security for large-scale systems

Cloud environments (GCP, AWS, CloudFl

Programming: Python, TypeScript, Rust

AI security practices

Roadmap ownership

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Discord is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of software engineers focused on reducing security risk across the platform. You’ll own technically and socially complex projects and shape security strategy to enable safe, scalable growth.

You will build identity and access management, secure software supply chains, and secure cloud infrastructure while guiding a high-velocity org with hundreds of developers. Join a security-forward culture at Discord.