Discord
Senior Software Engineer - Safety Experience
San Francisco Bay Area · Senior · Full-time
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About the role
- Keeping users safe is essential for Discord's growth, making your team's work critical.
- This role reports to the Engineering Manager of Safety Experience.
- The base salary range for this full-time position is listed below.
Responsibilities
- Lead development of highly‑visible, user‑facing products that protect Discord's users.
- Design, build, and deploy robust production APIs, backend services, and data pipelines to launch safety features at scale.
- Collaborate cross‑functionally with Product, Design, Policy, Data Science, ML, Legal, and T&S Operations to create solutions that are both impactful and lovable.
- 5+ years experience developing front-end interfaces with JavaScript (React, TypeScript) for both web and mobile platforms.
- Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work well with cross-functional partners, designers, and other engineers.
- Experience using metrics and dashboards to make data-driven decisions and develop insightful reports.
- Experience building and operating mobile‑client features on iOS and Android.
- A strong moral compass that drives you to protect users and do the right thing.
- 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.
Compensation
- $196,000 - $245,000 USD
- The base salary range for this full-time position is listed below.
- Our salary ranges are determined by role and level.
- Please note that the compensation details listed in role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits.
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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