Senior Software Engineer, Platform Security - San Francisco, CA or Remote (U.S.)

Discord is about giving people the power to create space to find belonging in their lives. Trusted by millions of people to keep their communications secure, private, and out of the hands of evildoers, security and privacy are necessary to Discord's success.

We are looking for a Senior Security Engineer, Platform Security reporting to the Platform Security Engineering Manager to join us in building a secure and private platform for Discord's users. If you are a Security Engineer with a passion for security and privacy, a deep sense of curiosity, and an endless desire to improve Discord, read on!

What you'll be doing

• Secure our software supply chain; all the way from a developer’s laptop, through version control, CI/CD, and into production
• Develop best-in-class secure baselines for cloud and bare-metal resources.
• Develop automation to scale the capabilities of yourself and our team as we build.
• Perform reviews ranging from architectural design to threat modeling and source code level assessments, providing recommendations to make our platform and infrastructure more secure
• Work with our Detection and Response team to ensure that we’re adequately monitoring the security of the systems that Discord builds.
• Partner with Anti-Abuse and Trust & Safety to improve our ability to yeet and delete bad actors from Discord

Example Projects

• Manage all access and IAM at Discord in scalable ways with platform solutions. For more information, please check out our blog post: https://discord.com/blog/access-a-new-portal-for-managing-internal-authorization
• Build automated tooling to scan across our infrastructure for vulnerabilities including container images and infrastructure-as-code
• Design and implement security controls for a next-generation developer platform for building apps and services at Discord
• Partner with Engineering to design and build authentication in service-to-service communication

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