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About the Role
Discord is seeking a Senior Engineer to focus on identity and access management, protecting systems and ensuring secure access to Discord's platform. This role involves designing and implementing technical solutions to reduce security risks and improve the user experience for managing identities and access.
Responsibilities
- Own software engineering projects end-to-end on a highly autonomous team.
- Define identity for autonomous agents and non-human actors, including provisioning, authentication, and auditing.
- Build and evolve Access, Discord's employee authorization platform, for discoverable, role-based, least privilege, and self-serve permissions.
- Design and harden Zero Trust architecture for human and service-to-service authentication.
- Automate continuous permission right-sizing in the spirit of least privilege.
- Develop and apply secure baselines for cloud identity.
- Secure the software supply chain from development through production.
- Consult on risk assessments, architectural designs, threat models, and code reviews, balancing security with business needs.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building and operating production systems or infrastructure.
- 3+ years of experience writing software in a general-purpose programming language (Python, TypeScript, and Rust).
- 3+ years of experience securing systems with millions of users.
- Experience building or operating identity and access management systems (authentication, authorization, or access control at scale).
- Understanding of modern authentication and authorization concepts (RBAC, OAuth, OIDC, SSO, Zero Trust, mTLS, cloud IAM).
- Experience building in and securing multi-cloud environments (GCP, Cloudflare, AWS).
- Experience designing and building software for customers (internal or external) beyond your immediate team.
Skills
- Identity and Access Management
- Authentication
- Authorization
- Access Control
- RBAC
- OAuth
- OIDC
- SSO
- Zero Trust network architectures
- mTLS
- Cloud IAM
- GCP
- Cloudflare
- AWS
- Python
- TypeScript
- Rust
- PKI
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Distroless
- OCI
- Terraform
- Bazel
- Buildkite
- Secrets management
- Vault
- Cloud KMS
- Service mesh
- Envoy
- Istio
- Linux
- Salt
Location
- US
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $196,000 to $245,000
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.
- More broadly, Discord is about empowering people to find belonging in all kinds of communities, and those people trust us to keep their communications safe.
- Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process.
- 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!
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.
- Please see our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy for details regarding Discord’s collection and usage of personal information relating to the application and recruitment process by clicking HERE.