Staff Software Engineer

4 weeks ago

San Francisco, United States Discord Full time

Discord is used by over 200 million people every month for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does on our platform: play video games. Over 90% of our users play games, spending a combined 1.5 billion hours playing thousands of unique titles on Discord each month. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games.

Discord is about giving people the power to create space to find belonging in their lives. We want to make it easier for you to talk regularly with the people you care about. We want you to build genuine relationships with your friends and communities close to home or around the world. Original, reliable, playful, and relatable. These are the values that connect our users and our employees at Discord.

This position is US based only.

We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Safety Processing team. This team plays a crucial role in ensuring trust and safety across Discord, processing signals from user reports and automated systems to identify and remove harmful or illegal content from our platform. You’ll lead backend projects, provide architectural guidance, and help build scalable systems that protect our users. Your work will directly impact the safety of our platform and help make Discord a place where everyone can belong.

What You'll Be Doing:
  • Lead, design, and build scalable backend systems for processing safety-related signals, primarily using Python.
  • Guide and mentor the team through architectural and system design challenges, ensuring long-term scalability as Discord continues to grow.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build tools that assist our agents in moderating content quickly and accurately, including migrating tooling from third-party platforms to our native systems.
  • Build solutions with an adversarial mindset, anticipating and addressing safety challenges such as malicious behavior and illegal content on the platform.
  • Drive workstreams and provide leadership to the team, mobilizing others to accomplish projects and deliver impactful outcomes.
  • Implement and enhance ML/AI models and automation to improve efficiency in content moderation and decision-making processes.
What We Look For:
  • Python Expertise: Extensive experience developing and maintaining backend systems using Python.
  • Architectural Leadership: Strong system design and architecture skills with the ability to build scalable, reliable systems for content moderation.
  • Leadership in Execution: Ability to define workstreams, lead projects, and guide other engineers through implementation.
  • Adversarial Mindset: Experience in a domain that required an adversarial mindset such as trust, safety, security, or privacy.
Bonus Points:
  • Experience working with ML/AI models in content moderation.
  • Familiarity with Typescript/Javascript/React and frontend technologies.
  • Previous experience at companies with a strong focus on safety, security, or trust & safety.
Why This Role is Exciting:

You will have a direct impact on keeping our platform safe, helping to remove harmful and illegal content, and assisting law enforcement agencies with critical issues. The work you do will help ensure Discord is a space where everyone can belong, while also shaping the future of our safety systems as we scale.

Big Impact: Your work will help keep Discord users safe and protect them from harmful content and potentially real world harm.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $223,000 to $245,500 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits.

Why Discord?

Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission Your future is just a click away

Check out our inclusion, diversity and purpose efforts, company principles, or learn more about the Life @ Discord experience #J-18808-Ljbffr

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