Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack (Safety)

Discord, San Francisco, CA

We built Discord to bring gamers together

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As a Safety engineer, your focus is on the long-term systems, operations, and APIs of the Anti-Abuse team. Your customers will be other engineers and operators who will use your products to grow safety. Come for the interesting projects, stay for the important mission. You report to the Safety Platform Manager.

You Will:

Build UIs and APIs in React and Python around our in-house, real-time, abuse detection platform that allow us to identify and take action against abuse.
Facilitate abuse data understanding by building easy-to-understand analysis toolsets.
Collaborate with analysts and other engineers to identify bottlenecks in their workflow and implement elegant solutions.
Move quickly to respond to the evolving landscape of abuse on Discord.

You Have:

4+ years experience writing Javascript (React, TypeScript).
4+ years experience writing Python.
Experience working with other engineers, designers and non-engineers.
Experience with databases like Cassandra or Postgres.
Experience with a backend web framework, such as Flask or Django.
Open-source leadership and contributions.

Bonus Points

Experience with data warehouses like Druid, BigQuery, and Redshift
Experience with real-time streaming data systems like Kafka or Pub-sub
Experience with services on Kubernetes
Experience with Python ASTs
Prior experience working in the Anti-Abuse domain
Ability to build client-side UI in React
You have a strong moral compass that navigates and motivates you

New York City residents only: Minimum salary of $186,000/year + equity and benefits
*Note: Disclosure as required by NYC Pay Transparency Law

Colorado residents only: Minimum salary of $148,800/year + equity and benefits
*Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085(8-5-20).

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Benefits and Perks

Comprehensive medical insurance including Health, Dental and Vision (plus up to $20,000 for gender affirmation procedures)
Mental health resources and quarterly wellness stipends
16+ paid holidays, 4 weeks of PTO + use-what-you-need sick days
Paid parental leave (plus fertility, adoption and other family planning benefits)
Flexible long-term work options (remote and hybrid)
Volunteer time off
A diverse slate of Employee Resource Groups
Plus commuter contributions and other perks for office-based employees

About Us

Discord is a voice, video and text app that helps friends and communities come together to hang out and explore their interests — from artists and activists, to study groups, sneakerheads, plant parents, and more. With 150 million monthly users across 19 million active communities, called servers, Discord has grown to become one of the most popular communications services in the world. Discord was built without selling ads or user data and instead, offers a premium subscription called Nitro that gives users special perks like higher quality streams and fun customizations.

We’re working toward an inclusive world where no one feels like an outsider, where genuine human connection is a click, text chat, or voice call away. A place where everyone can find belonging. Challenging? Heck yes. Rewarding? Double heck yes. It’s a mission that gives us the chance to positively impact millions of people all over the world. So if this strikes a chord with you, come build belonging with us!

About Discord

About us Discord is the all-in-one voice and text chat app designed specifically for gamers. It's free, secure, and works on both desktop and phone. Our mission is to bring gaming communities together. Discord's free voice and text chat is about making it easier for you spend time with the people you care about, create these memories, and land a headshot or two. Two hundred seventy million PC gamers use chat apps to communicate while playing online games. As gamers, we got fed up with many of these chat tools and decided to fix the problem ourselves. As a result, we've built the best all-in-one voice and text chat app for gamers. Fortunately, a lot of people love it. Discord currently has 45 million registered users with over 9 million Daily Active Users. The service sees 200 million messages posted a day, over 4 million peak concurrent players and a staggering 16 petabytes of voice chat data going through its servers every month. Founded by the team behind OpenFeint - a networking platform that united mobile games with achievements and social functionality - Discord has raised over $30M from top VCs like Greylock, Benchmark, Accel, and Tencent.