Discord

Discord

Senior Platform Security Engineer

San Francisco Bay Area · Senior · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$196k-$245kDetected 1 day ago
TypeScriptPythonDistributed SystemsCode ReviewAWSGCPCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesTerraformCI/CDLinuxOAuthCybersecuritySupply ChainZero TrustCommunication

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About the role

  • 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.
  • For this role, the Hiring Manager would like folks to be in the office 1-2 days a week.

Responsibilities

  • Own software engineering projects end-to-end on a highly autonomous, horizontally integrated team with a lot of leverage. This is a code-forward role!
  • Build and evolve Access, Discord's employee authorization platform, to make permissions discoverable, role-based, least privilege, and self-serve
  • Design and harden our Zero Trust architecture, spanning human and service-to-service auth*n for Discord's internal tooling.
  • Develop and apply secure baselines for cloud identity, and help secure our software supply chain from the dev environment through CI/CD and into production.
  • Consult on risk assessments, architectural designs, threat models, code reviews, and more, pragmatically balancing security with other business considerations.
  • Build out service identity provisioning using PKI and mTLS, so services can authenticate each other without shared secrets.
  • Own software engineering projects end-to-end on a highly autonomous, horizontally integrated team with a lot of leverage.
  • Build and evolve Access, Discord's employee authorization platform, to make permissions discoverable, role-based, least privilege, and self-serve; check out our blog post to learn more!
  • Experience building or operating identity and access management systems: authentication, authorization, or access control at scale
  • Experience building in and securing multi-cloud environments (e.g. GCP, Cloudflare, AWS)

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience building and operating production systems or infrastructure
  • 3+ years of experience writing software in a general-purpose programming language (we mainly use Python, TypeScript, and Rust)
  • 3+ years of experience securing systems with millions of users
  • Experience with Zero Trust platforms such as Cloudflare Access and Teleport, for auditable access to apps, hosts, and internal systems
  • Experience with secrets management systems (e.g. Vault, or a cloud KMS or secrets manager), including rotation and least-privilege access to secrets

Skills

  • You'll help identify leveraged opportunities to reduce security risk across
  • Engineering, then design and deliver technical solutions:
  • lovable "paved paths" for managing identities and access, shipping code, configuring cloud infrastructure, and operating services.
  • This position is based in our San Francisco office.

Compensation

  • The US base salary range for this full-time position is $196,000 to $245,000 + equity + benefits.

Benefits

  • As the role of these actors grows, and create primitives to implement that vision.
  • Bonus points if you have…

Company info

  • 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.
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