Discord
Staff Software Engineer, Platform Security
San Francisco Bay Area or Remote · Staff+ · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$248k-$310kDetected 6 days ago
PythonRustDistributed SystemsCode ReviewAWSGCPCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesTerraformCI/CDLinuxOAuthCybersecurityZero TrustLeadershipCommunicationMentoring
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.
- Our salary ranges are determined by role and level.
- Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
Responsibilities
- Shape company-wide security strategy and lead software engineering projects on a highly-autonomous and horizontally-integrated team with a lot of leverage. This is a code-forward role!
- Develop and apply best-in-class secure baselines for cloud infrastructure.
- Build and own identity and access management (IAM) systems that are user-friendly and promote least privilege.
- Manage infrastructure vulnerabilities while supporting rapid growth for Engineering.
- Consult on risk assessments, architectural designs, threat models, code reviews, and more-pragmatically balancing security with other business considerations.
- Support IAM with scalable platform solutions (check out https://discord.com/blog/access-a-new-portal-for-managing-internal-authorization ).
- Build tooling to prevent and address vulnerabilities across our infrastructure.
- Shape company-wide security strategy and lead software engineering projects on a highly-autonomous and horizontally-integrated team with a lot of leverage.
- Familiarity with build and CI/CD technologies (e.g. Terraform, Bazel, Buildkite)
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building and operating production systems or infrastructure
- 5+ years of experience writing software in a general-purpose programming language (we mainly use Python and Rust)
- 4+ years of experience securing systems with millions of users
Compensation
- The US base salary range for this full-time position is $248,000 to $310,000 + equity + benefits.
Benefits
- Bonus points if you have…
Company info
- Experience designing and building software for customers (internal or external) beyond your immediate team
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