Senior Application Security Engineer — Auth & Sessions

BITKRAFT Ventures; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 196,000 - 220,500; Full time

Job summary

Discord seeks a Senior Software Engineer to join our Application Security team and protect Discord’s users where it matters most—accounts and authentication.

You will design and ship full‑stack security features, strengthen session management, collaborate with product teams, and stay ahead of evolving threats with a focus on reliability, performance, and user trust.

This is a US‑based role with a competitive salary, equity, and benefits as described in the posting.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience securing production applications.
• 3+ years of experience programming in at least one general-purpose language (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 (WebAuthn, passkeys, FIDO2, MFA, session management).
• Ability to provide engineers with clear, sound guidance on secure design and implementation.

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 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 emphasizing self-service, automation, and performance to mitigate account security flaws.

Skills

Security engineering

Full-stack security

Authentication

Session management

Cloud environments

Security guidance

Job description

Discord seeks a Senior Software Engineer to join our Application Security team and protect Discord’s users where it matters most—accounts and authentication.

You will design and ship full‑stack security features, strengthen session management, collaborate with product teams, and stay ahead of evolving threats with a focus on reliability, performance, and user trust.

This is a US‑based role with a competitive salary, equity, and benefits as described in the posting.