Senior Software Engineer, Safety Backend

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.

Keeping our platform safe requires infrastructure that is accurate, scalable, and fair and the engineering challenges that come with that are genuinely hard. Our Safety Engineering teams build and operate the systems that power content moderation, enforcement, and safety signal processing at scale.

Our team developed Osprey , the open-source investigation and incident response tool that allows safety teams to understand what is happening on their platforms and take actions at scale. Osprey has since been open-sourced and donated to ROOST , reflecting our commitment to industry-wide safety improvements.

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer who thrives on complex, ambiguous problems and can take full ownership of critical infrastructure from design through post-launch iteration.

What You'll Be Doing

• Own complex safety infrastructure projects end-to-end, from initial design through post-launch monitoring and iteration

• Build and maintain production systems that operate at massive scale, participating in on-call rotations

• Apply an adversarial mindset to your work — thinking through security, abuse scenarios, edge cases, and scalability concerns

• Collaborate closely with Trust & Safety, ML, Policy, and product teams to understand requirements and deliver effective sol

Department: Developers