Threat Investigator

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.

Discord's mission is to give people the power to create space to find belonging in their lives, and every day millions of people trust Discord to be a place where they can talk, hang out, and build community. Keeping that space safe starts with teams like ours.

Discord's Violent Actors Team, part of the broader Threat Operations org within Trust & Safety, focuses on identifying and disrupting violent and extremist networks and threat actors. As a Threat Investigator, you'll lead investigations into these communities, identify novel detection mechanisms, and develop enforcement strategies to stay ahead of ongoing and emerging threats.

A typical day might include conducting deep-dive network investigations, compiling high-value signals to fuel proactive detection, or collaborating with internal and external partners on incident response. This role requires the ability to flex across a range of harm portfolios as team priorities evolve. This person will report to the team's Senior Manager.

What You'll Be Doing

• Leading complex investigations into violent extremist and threat actor networks, developing and iterating on detection and disruption strategies across your investigative portfolio

• Executing on roadmap projects, including cross-functional coordination with policy, engineering, and ML/AI teams, documentation of behavioral trends, and identification of scalable mitigation strategies

• Leveraging investigative signals and subject matter expertise to inform threat prioritizati

Department: Trust & Safety