Discord

Senior Software Engineer, Enforce - Safety Processing

San Francisco Bay Area or Los Angeles Area · Senior · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$196k-$221kDetected 6 days ago

PythonRustDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentPostgreSQLRedisGCPDatadoggRPCMachine LearningData ScienceLLMsCommunicationCollaboration

About the role

Keeping our users safe is foundational to everything we do.
The Enforce Squad is a newly formed squad within Safety Processing, responsible for the systems that translate safety decisions into real-world actions such as bans, warnings, content removal, and legally mandated reporting.
These systems touch every user who violates policy and every piece of content that gets actioned.

Own high impact projects within a complex distributed system from end-to-end that help Safety at Discord scale.
Partner with Trust & Safety, Policy, ML, Data Science, and Legal teams to deliver enforcement changes ranging from policy updates to compliance-critical pipeline improvements.
Experience building and operating distributed systems and production services at scale ( use GCP, PostgreSQL, Redis, Pub/Sub, KKV, and gRPC).
Demonstrated ability to own projects end-to-end and deliver results on time, including in ambiguous or transitional environments.
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.

4+ years of professional software engineering experience with a focus on backend services and infrastructure.
Strong debugging skills and ability to navigate complex, multi-service codebases.
The ability to anticipate misuse, edge cases, and system vulnerabilities in systems that bad actors are actively trying to circumvent
Experience being in 24/7 on-call rotations.
Apply an adversarial mindset to enforcement systems to anticipate abuse patterns, edge cases, and failure modes in systems that must be accurate, fair, and legally compliant.
Candidates in the San Francisco area are required to be in the office 2 days per week.
Candidates must be located within one of the following counties:

Experience with content moderation, trust & safety, enforcement infrastructure, or related problem domains.
Familiarity with Rust
Familiarity with legally mandated reporting pipelines or compliance-sensitive systems.
Experience with workflow automation or decision systems, particularly handler-based or rules-driven enforcement architectures.
Experience with observability tooling, defining SLOs, building dashboards, and instrumenting distributed systems with Datadog or similar.
A strong passion for Discord and making online communities safer.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $196,000 to $220,500 + equity + benefits.
Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits.

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.
The Safety Processing team builds the infrastructure and decision systems that enable accurate, efficient, and fair content moderation at scale.
We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer who can take ownership of complex, critical infrastructure and help us stabilize, scale, and evolve Discord's enforcement systems.
Using Gen AI products, like Claude Code, as part of your daily workflow.
We are seeking candidates located in the Los Angeles or San Francisco Bay Areas.
Join us in our mission!

This listing is sourced directly from Discord's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.