Staff Software Engineer - Safety Experience

Discord·San Francisco Bay Area or Los Angeles Arealead

In short

→Liderar el desarrollo de funciones de seguridad a gran escala que protejan a millones de usuarios.
→Trabajar en proyectos complejos con alta ambigüedad, desde diseño hasta despliegue en producción.
→Destacar como multiplicador técnico: mentoreo, excelencia en ingeniería y toma de decisiones estratégicas.

Strong communication skills with ability to provide high-quality technical feedback...

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What they ask for

✓8+ años de experiencia en industria con impacto demostrable.
✓Experto en Python y frameworks backend (Flask, Django).
✓Habilidades sólidas en front-end con JavaScript (React, TypeScript).
✓Experiencia comprobada en seguridad o anti-abuso a gran escala.
✓Capacidad para liderar proyectos end-to-end con ambigüedad.
✓Habilidad para tomar decisiones técnicas independientes balanceando corto y largo plazo.

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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. As a Staff Engineer on the Safety Experience team, you ll be a technical leader who autonomously delivers real business impact on large, ambiguous projects. You ll design and build product features and systems that prevent harmful activities at scale while ensuring regulatory compliance. This role requires both deep technical expertise and the ability to be a force multiplier for your team: driving engineering excellence, making solid technical decisions, and remaining a top code contributor. You ll work cross-functionally to shape the technical direction of safety initiatives that protect hundreds of millions of Discord users. This role reports to the Engineering Manager of Safety Experience . What You ll Be Doing • Lead development of high-impact, user-facing safety products that deliver measurable results for Discord s users. • Own complex, multi-milestone projects end-to-end, identifying optimal solutions, navigating ambiguity and making independent technical decisions. • Design, build, and deploy robust production APIs, backend services, and data pipelines that enable safety features to scale efficiently. • Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, Policy, Data Science, ML, Legal, and Trust & Safety Operations to create solutions that are both impactful and lovable. • Drive engineering excellence by mentoring others and guiding the team through architectural challenges to ensure long-term scalability. • Respond rapidly to the ever-evolving abuse and compliance landscape with strategic thinking and swift execution. What you should have • 8+ years of relevant industry experience, with demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality, high-impact work on complex projects. • Strong expertise in Python and back-end API frameworks (Flask, Django). • Strong front-end development skills with JavaScript (React, TypeScript) for web and mobile platforms. • Significant experience in the Safety or Anti-Abuse domain with deep understanding of trust and safety challenges at scale. • Proven track record of owning large projects end-to-end with varying degrees of ambiguity, breaking down work into well-prioritized milestones with clear dependencies. • Demonstrated ability to make independent technical decisions that balance short-term needs with long-term sustainability and scalability. • Experience driving engineering excellence: setting quality standards, conducting thorough code reviews, and applying an adversarial mindset to identify security, performance, and scaling issues. • Strong communication skills with ability to provide high-quality technical feedback, drive alignment across stakeholders, and facilitate productive debates that lead to clear decisions. • Experience using metrics and dashboards (e.g., Datadog, Mode, Faros) to make data-driven decisions and monitor system health. • Ability to be a force multiplier for your team by mentoring others, establishing best practices, and helping teammates grow their skills. • Experience utilizing AI tools like Claude Code and Cursor to supercharge dev workflows Bonus Points • Familiar

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