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Salary: USD 248,000 - 310,000 / annual
Discord is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Safety Experience team in San Francisco. This is a technical leadership role focused on designing and building product features and systems that prevent harmful activities at scale while ensuring regulatory compliance across Discord's hundreds of millions of users.
In this role, you will autonomously deliver high-impact projects on large, ambiguous initiatives. You'll lead development of user-facing safety products, own complex multi-milestone projects end-to-end, and design 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.
You'll drive engineering excellence by mentoring team members, guiding the team through architectural challenges, and ensuring long-term scalability. The role requires rapid response to evolving abuse and compliance landscapes with strategic thinking and swift execution.
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 front-end development skills with JavaScript (React, TypeScript). Significant experience in the Safety or Anti-Abuse domain with deep understanding of trust and safety challenges at scale is essential.
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, ability to make independent technical decisions balancing short-term needs with long-term sustainability, and experience using metrics and dashboards (Datadog, Mode, Faros) for data-driven decisions are critical. Experience with AI tools like Claude Code and Cursor is valued.
Bonus qualifications include familiarity with databases (Cassandra, Postgres, ScyllaDB), real-time streaming systems (Kafka, Pub-Sub), native mobile development (iOS/Android), monitoring strategy design, and lower-level languages (Go, Rust, Elixir).
