Senior Software Engineer

Discord is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Safety Experience team. In this role, you will lead the development of user-facing products that protect Discord's users, design and build robust production APIs, backend services, and data pipelines, and collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, Policy, Data Science, ML, Legal, and T&S Operations. You will also iterate on in-house tooling and respond to the evolving abuse and compliance landscape.

• 5+ years experience writing Python and utilizing back-end API frameworks (Flask, Django).
• 5+ years experience developing front-end interfaces with JavaScript (React, TypeScript) for both web and mobile platforms.
• Familiarity with databases such as Cassandra, Postgres, and ScyllaDB.
• Demonstrated success leading end-to-end delivery of complex projects.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot, debug, and test complex systems in a live, production environment.
• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience using metrics and dashboards to make data-driven decisions.

• Experience in the Safety or Anti-Abuse domain.
• Experience analyzing and visualizing data using Datadog or Mode.
• Familiarity with real-time streaming systems like Kafka or Pub-Sub.
• Ability to contribute to offline analytics jobs and processes.
• Experience building and operating mobile-client features on iOS and Android.
• Exposure to lower-level languages such as Go, Rust, and Elixir.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $196,000 to $245,000 + equity + benefits.