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About the Role
As a Staff Engineer on the Safety Experience team, you'll be a technical leader who autonomously delivers real business impact on large, ambiguous projects. You'll design and build product features and systems that prevent harmful activities at scale while ensuring regulatory compliance. This role requires both deep technical expertise and the ability to be a force multiplier for your team: driving engineering excellence, making solid technical decisions, and remaining a top code contributor. You'll work cross-functionally to shape the technical direction of safety initiatives that protect hundreds of millions of Discord users.
Responsibilities
- Lead development of high-impact, user-facing safety products that deliver measurable results for Discord's users.
- Own complex, multi-milestone projects end-to-end, identifying optimal solutions, navigating ambiguity and making independent technical decisions.
- Design, build, and deploy robust production APIs, backend services, and data pipelines that enable safety features to scale efficiently.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, Policy, Data Science, ML, Legal, and Trust & Safety Operations to create solutions that are both impactful and lovable.
- Drive engineering excellence by mentoring others and guiding the team through architectural challenges to ensure long-term scalability.
- Respond rapidly to the ever-evolving abuse and compliance landscape with strategic thinking and swift execution.
Requirements
- 8+ years of relevant industry experience, with demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality, high-impact work on complex projects.
- Proven track record of owning large projects end-to-end with varying degrees of ambiguity, breaking down work into well-prioritized milestones with clear dependencies.
- Demonstrated ability to make independent technical decisions that balance short-term needs with long-term sustainability and scalability.
- Experience driving engineering excellence: setting quality standards, conducting thorough code reviews, and applying an adversarial mindset to identify security, performance, and scaling issues.
- Strong communication skills with ability to provide high-quality technical feedback, drive alignment across stakeholders, and facilitate productive debates that lead to clear decisions.
- Experience using metrics and dashboards (e.g., Datadog, Mode, Faros) to make data-driven decisions and monitor system health.
- Ability to be a force multiplier for your team by mentoring others, establishing best practices, and helping teammates grow their skills.
- Experience utilizing AI tools like Claude Code and Cursor to supercharge dev workflows
Skills
- Python
- Flask
- Django
- JavaScript
- React
- TypeScript
- Safety domain
- Anti-Abuse domain
- Datadog
- Mode
- Faros
- Cassandra
- Postgres
- ScyllaDB
- Kafka
- Pub-Sub
- Go
- Rust
- Elixir
Work Type
- full-time
Experience Level
- Staff Engineer
- 8+ years of relevant industry experience
Salary/Compensations
- $248,000 to $310,000
Benefits
- equity
- benefits
About the Company
- Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does: play video games. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games.
- Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests, and helps developers build and grow their businesses. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Your future is just a click away!
Equal Opportunity
- Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process. We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know.
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