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About the Role

Discord plays a crucial role in the future of gaming, connecting over 200 million monthly users who spend 1.5 billion hours playing thousands of unique titles. The Safety Processing team ensures trust and safety by processing user reports and automated signals to identify and remove harmful content. This role involves leading backend projects, providing architectural guidance, and building scalable systems to protect users and make Discord a safe platform for everyone.

Responsibilities

Lead, design, and build scalable Python backend systems for processing safety-related signals.
Guide and mentor the team through architectural and system design challenges, ensuring long-term scalability.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build tools for content moderation and compliance efforts, including in-house solutions and vendors.
Implement and enhance ML/AI models and automation to improve efficiency in content moderation and decision-making processes.
Build solutions with an adversarial mindset, anticipating and addressing safety challenges like malicious behavior and illegal content.
Drive workstreams and provide leadership to the team, mobilizing others to accomplish projects and deliver impactful outcomes.

Requirements

Extensive experience developing and maintaining backend systems using Python.
Strong system design and architecture skills to build scalable, reliable content moderation systems for large-scale projects.
Ability to define workstreams, lead projects, and guide other engineers through implementation.
Experience in a domain requiring an adversarial mindset, such as trust, safety, security, or privacy.
Experience participating in a 24/7 on-call rotation for production systems.
Experience working with ML/AI models in content moderation (Bonus).
Familiarity with Typescript/Javascript/React and frontend technologies (Bonus).
Familiarity with Rust (Bonus).
Previous experience at companies with a strong focus on safety, security, or trust & safety (Bonus).

Skills

Python
System Design
Backend Development
ML/AI Models
Content Moderation
Typescript
Javascript
React
Rust

Location

San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties)
Willingness to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Staff level
Extensive experience

Salary/Compensations

US base salary range: $248,000 to $310,000
Equity
Benefits

Benefits

Equity
Benefits package

About the Company

Discord is a multiplatform, multigenerational, and multiplayer platform.
Helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests.
Believes games provide a way to have fun with favorite people.

Equal Opportunity

Committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process.
Applicants needing reasonable accommodations should inform their recruiter.