Remote Platform Security Engineering Manager

Rysein; United States; Remote; USD 248,000 - 310,000; Full time

Job summary

Discord is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a security software engineering team focused on reducing risk across our engineering stack. You will shape strategy, own security baselines for cloud environments, and build IAM and supply-chain safeguards that balance speed and safety.

You will mentor engineers, drive a diverse, inclusive team, and collaborate across product and infrastructure to ship secure, scalable systems for millions of users, with remote-friendly options.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience as people manager, having managed a team of 3+ security software engineers
• Passion for creating diverse and inclusive teams and coaching engineers
• 3+ years of experience securing systems with millions of users
• Comfort with writing the roadmap, not just following one
• Experience building in and securing cloud-based environments (we use GCP, Cloudflare, and AWS)
• Expert reasoning about the security of complex systems, even if they contain unfamiliar components
• Experience writing software in a general-purpose programming language (we use Python, Typescript, and Rust)
• Experience developing with agentic AI, and a good grasp of AI security practices

Responsibilities

• Develop and apply best-in-class secure baselines for cloud infrastructure, owning the security of all cloud environments
• Manage infrastructure vulnerabilities while supporting a high-velocity engineering org with hundreds of developers
• Secure first- and third-party software supply chains, from the dev environment through CI/CD and into production
• Build and operate identity and access management (IAM) systems for humans and machines that are user-friendly and promote least privilege
• Consult on risk assessments, architectural designs, threat models, code reviews, and more—pragmatically balancing security with other business considerations

Skills

People management

Diversity & inclusion

Cloud security (GCP/AWS)

Secure software for large user bases

Roadmap ownership

Python/Typescript/Rust

AI security

Auth concepts (RBAC/OAuth/Zero Trust)

CI/CD tools (Terraform/Bazel/Buildkite

Containers/Kubernetes/Docker

Serverless (Cloudflare Workers)

Wiz security platform

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Job description

Discord is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a security software engineering team focused on reducing risk across our engineering stack. You will shape strategy, own security baselines for cloud environments, and build IAM and supply-chain safeguards that balance speed and safety.

You will mentor engineers, drive a diverse, inclusive team, and collaborate across product and infrastructure to ship secure, scalable systems for millions of users, with remote-friendly options.