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Salary: USD 248,000 - 310,000 / annual
Discord is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the Safety Experience team, a critical function protecting hundreds of millions of daily active users on the platform. In this role, you will autonomously own large, ambiguous projects end-to-end, designing and building product features and systems that prevent harmful activities at scale while ensuring regulatory compliance.
You will lead development of high-impact, user-facing safety products that deliver measurable results. This includes designing, building, and deploying robust production APIs, backend services, and data pipelines that enable safety features to scale efficiently. You'll collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, Policy, Data Science, ML, Legal, and Trust & Safety Operations to create solutions that are both impactful and user-friendly.
As a technical leader, you will drive engineering excellence by mentoring team members, guiding the team through architectural challenges, and ensuring long-term scalability. You'll respond rapidly to the evolving abuse and compliance landscape with strategic thinking and swift execution, making independent technical decisions that balance short-term needs with long-term sustainability.
Required qualifications include 8+ years of relevant industry experience with demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality work on complex projects. You need strong expertise in Python and backend API frameworks (Flask, Django), as well as significant front-end development skills with JavaScript (React, TypeScript). Critically, you should have substantial experience in the Safety or Anti-Abuse domain with deep understanding of trust and safety challenges at scale.
You should have a proven track record of owning large projects end-to-end, breaking down work into well-prioritized milestones with clear dependencies. Strong communication skills are essential, with the ability to provide high-quality technical feedback, drive alignment across stakeholders, and facilitate productive debates. Experience using metrics and dashboards (Datadog, Mode, Faros) to make data-driven decisions is required. Bonus skills include familiarity with databases like Cassandra, Postgres, or ScyllaDB; real-time streaming systems like Kafka; native mobile development on iOS/Android; and lower-level languages such as Go, Rust, or Elixir.
