Senior Safety Infrastructure Engineer — Scale, Impact & Equity

Discord; San Francisco, Los Angeles (CA, CA); Hybrid; USD 221,000 - 270,000; Full time

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Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Discord seeks a Senior Software Engineer to own complex safety infrastructure and deliver scalable backend systems. You will design and implement critical platforms, working across Trust & Safety, ML, Policy, and product teams to build robust solutions.

You will mentor teammates, contribute to RFCs, and help drive best practices while navigating security, abuse scenarios, and large-scale deployments. This US-based role requires SF or LA area presence and offers equity and benefits.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience focused on backend services and/or infrastructure.
• Strong programming skills in Python; we work occasionally in Rust and TypeScript as well
• Experience building and operating distributed systems and production services at scale such as GCP or AWS
• Strong debugging skills and ability to navigate complex, multi-service codebases
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, including experience working with cross-functional partners

Responsibilities

• Own complex safety infrastructure projects end-to-end, from initial design through post-launch monitoring and iteration
• Build and maintain production systems that operate at massive scale, participating in on-call rotations
• Apply an adversarial mindset to your work — thinking through security, abuse scenarios, edge cases, and scalability concerns
• Collaborate closely with Trust & Safety, ML, Policy, and product teams to understand requirements and deliver effective solutions
• Break down large, multi-milestone projects into prioritized work streams while managing stakeholders and dependencies across teams
• Contribute to technical design discussions and write RFCs; help establish best practices and maintain a high quality bar through code reviews and mentorship

Skills

Python

Rust

TypeScript

Distributed systems

On-call experience

Collaboration

Job description

Discord seeks a Senior Software Engineer to own complex safety infrastructure and deliver scalable backend systems. You will design and implement critical platforms, working across Trust & Safety, ML, Policy, and product teams to build robust solutions.

You will mentor teammates, contribute to RFCs, and help drive best practices while navigating security, abuse scenarios, and large-scale deployments. This US-based role requires SF or LA area presence and offers equity and benefits.