Senior Software Engineer, Account Security & Auth

Hitmarker | Gaming Jobs; United States; Remote; USD 196,000 - 245,000; Full time

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Job summary

Discord is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for its Application Security team to protect users’ accounts by strengthening authentication and session security. You will join an engineering group delivering secure, user-facing solutions at scale and lead cross-functional security initiatives across the platform.

The role emphasizes production-grade security features, collaboration with product teams, and a strong focus on modern authentication technologies in a cloud environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years securing production applications.
• 3+ years programming in Python, Go, Java, or Rust.
• Hands-on experience with authentication and account security (WebAuthn, passkeys, FIDO2, MFA, session management).

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 to 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 that emphasize self-service, automation, and performance to help identify and mitigate account security flaws.

Skills

Years of security experience

Programming languages

Authentication & account security

Security project leadership

Client app security

Cloud environments

Job description

Discord is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for its Application Security team to protect users’ accounts by strengthening authentication and session security. You will join an engineering group delivering secure, user-facing solutions at scale and lead cross-functional security initiatives across the platform.

The role emphasizes production-grade security features, collaboration with product teams, and a strong focus on modern authentication technologies in a cloud environment.