Senior Application Security Engineer — Account & Auth

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San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 196,000 - 245,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Discord is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join Application Security in San Francisco. You will design and implement security features protecting hundreds of millions of users, focusing on authentication and session management, and partner with product teams to ship user-facing security tools.

You should have 5+ years securing production apps and 3+ years programming in languages like Python/Go/Java/Rust.

Qualifications

5+ years securing production apps.
3+ years programming in Python/Go/Java/Rust.
Hands-on with security features in production.
Experience with authentication and session security.
Led security projects with cross-functional teams.
Built or hardened client apps.
Cloud environments experience (Google Cloud preferred).

Responsibilities

Join an engineering team designing and implementing full-stack, user-facing security solutions.
Lead full-stack work to strengthen session security and authentication.
Improve, operate, and maintain security-critical authentication services.
Partner with Product teams to drive adoption of stronger authentication.
Identify and design solutions for emerging threats to user account security.
Research and implement new security capabilities for the platform.
Build security controls and tools that emphasize self-service and performance.