
Discord
San Francisco, CA
Voice, video, text chat for gamers and communities
About
Discord builds a communication platform with voice, video, and text features for gamers to connect during PC, mobile, and console play. It supports private chats and community servers, expanded with in-game overlays and Activities. Used by over 200 million monthly active users, primarily gamers logging billions of hours monthly.
Tech stack
Python, TypeScript, Rust, React, GCP, SQL, React Native, Kubernetes, JavaScript, AWS, BigQuery, Tableau, Swift, Kotlin, Looker
Perks & benefits
Health insurance, Dental insurance, Vision insurance, Mental health support, Parental leave, Unlimited PTO, 401k match, Gym membership
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46Build and deploy scalable machine learning systems that detect risk, anomalous behavior, and account-integrity issues to help keep Discord users safe. The role requires 4+ years of ML experience, strong Python and framework expertise, and a relevant bachelor’s or master’s degree.
Software engineer building Discord’s notification experiences and platform, improving client delivery, notification quality, and operational performance. Requires 2+ years of professional software engineering experience and proficiency in Python, Elixir, or TypeScript.
Senior platform security engineer responsible for building identity and access management systems, Zero Trust architecture, cloud security baselines, and secure developer platforms. Requires 5+ years operating production systems and strong software development and security experience.
Own fraud detection, payments operations, investigations, and risk strategy while leading cross-functional programs and launch assessments. The role requires 4+ years in payments, fraud, or risk operations, strong SQL and card-network expertise, and the ability to communicate decisions across technical and business teams.
Leads a product design team responsible for Discord’s new-user journey across discovery, registration, onboarding, notifications, and re-engagement. Requires 10+ years of consumer product design experience and 4+ years managing design teams.
Staff full-stack engineer leading technical strategy and end-to-end product development for Discord’s consumer revenue experiences, including Nitro, Shop, Server Boosting, and User Identity. Requires 8+ years of software engineering experience and expertise in React/React Native and Python.
Administers Discord’s global equity programs, reconciling transactions across equity systems, payroll, and the general ledger while supporting employees and cross-functional stakeholders. Requires 5+ years of stock plan administration experience, including private and public company environments.
Staff engineer leading development of scalable, user-facing safety products and backend systems for Discord. Requires 8+ years of experience, strong Python and frontend expertise, and deep experience in safety or anti-abuse systems.
Leads Discord’s Safety ML team, setting technical direction and overseeing production machine learning systems for content understanding, account integrity, and platform abuse. Requires substantial machine learning and engineering management experience, hands-on technical depth, and experience delivering ML systems at scale.
Senior Data Scientist supporting Discord’s experimentation platform by improving experimental rigor, statistical methodology, and causal inference practices. The role requires a quantitative master’s degree, experience with experiments or causal inference, strong cross-functional education skills, and proficiency in Python, SQL, and R.
Senior product designer for Discord’s Consumer Revenue team, owning paid-product experiences from strategy and discovery through experimentation, launch, and iteration. Requires 5+ years designing consumer products across desktop and mobile, strong product thinking, expert Figma and prototyping skills, and experience with design systems and data-informed decisions.
Leads development of Discord’s experimentation platform, spanning data pipelines, statistical analysis, configuration tooling, and user experiences. Requires 7+ years of full-stack engineering experience, strong Python and SQL skills, experimentation expertise, and a track record of leading complex projects and mentoring engineers.
Leads the vision, statistical methodology, research, and education strategy for Discord’s experimentation platform. The role requires a quantitative PhD or equivalent experience, 4+ years in experimentation or causal inference, and proficiency with statistical programming languages.
Leads technology risk audits spanning IT SOX/ITGC, financial-reporting systems, and consumer trust domains such as security and privacy. The role partners with Engineering, manages audit projects and remediation, and applies AI automation to strengthen testing and monitoring.
Owns automated QA suite development and maintenance for Oracle ERP Cloud and Salesforce, integrating Tosca-based regression testing into CI/CD pipelines and quarterly release cycles. Requires 3–5+ years of QA automation experience, Tosca expertise, enterprise ERP testing, and scripting or pipeline skills.
Build and operate petabyte-scale data infrastructure powering Discord’s insights and products. The role requires 5+ years of software engineering experience, strong programming skills, and experience with large-scale pipelines, streaming, orchestration, or data warehousing.
Builds and scales Discord’s advertising products and infrastructure across backend and frontend systems. The role requires 5+ years of experience, strong ownership, cross-functional collaboration, and expertise in technologies such as Python, Rust, TypeScript, React, or React Native.
Leads the technical strategy, governance, and quality of Discord’s analytical data infrastructure, building trusted curated datasets and metric frameworks for internal and externally reported analytics. Requires 7+ years in data and software engineering, expert SQL, strong Python, and experience operating data systems at scale.
Manages digital advertising campaign execution, technical support, optimization, and performance analytics while scaling automation and tooling. Requires 3–5+ years in ad operations or digital advertising, SQL proficiency, client-facing experience, and cross-functional work with Product and Engineering.
Develops and scales brand safety and anti-malware policy for Discord’s advertising business, partnering with Legal, Revenue, Product, Engineering, and Enforcement. Requires 5+ years in advertising policy, trust and safety, marketplace operations, or brand safety, plus expertise in digital advertising and malvertising risks.
Builds full-stack systems and user experiences that drive Discord’s acquisition and activation, using TypeScript, React, Python, and experimentation. Requires at least five years of software engineering experience and strong ownership across frontend and backend development.
Build and operate Discord’s greenfield Enterprise Platform, turning identity, device management, infrastructure, and application delivery into reusable self-service software. The role requires production software engineering experience, IAM and Terraform expertise, and end-to-end ownership of complex platform projects.
Build the foundational Enterprise Platform engineering discipline, turning identity, device management, infrastructure, and application delivery into self-service, API-driven software. The role requires 6+ years of production engineering experience, deep IAM expertise, and strong Terraform and CI/CD skills.
Designs end-to-end consumer growth experiences spanning discovery, onboarding, notifications, off-platform touchpoints, and re-engagement across multiple platforms. The role requires 3+ years of product design experience, strong visual and interaction design skills, and proficiency with Figma and prototyping tools.
Lead complex investigations into violent extremist and threat actor networks on Discord. Develop detection and disruption strategies, collaborate with policy, engineering, and ML teams, and serve as a subject matter expert on evolving threats. Requires 5+ years in threat intelligence or investigations.
Senior Software Engineer on Discord's Application Security team building full-stack user-facing authentication and account security features to protect hundreds of millions of users. Requires 5+ years securing production applications, hands-on auth experience (WebAuthn, MFA, passkeys), and leading cross-functional security projects.
Build full-stack ads products (including Quests) at Discord that reward users, enable advertisers, and optimize via analytics. Requires 4+ years full-stack experience with TypeScript, React, and Python (or equivalents), plus a growth and collaboration mindset.
Lead three engineering squads building automated LLM review pipelines, enforcement systems, appeals, and investigator tooling for Discord's Trust & Safety. Manage nine engineers while driving automation, compliance, and operational tooling in a high-stakes environment.
Lead a team of security software engineers to build paved-path IAM, secure supply chains, cloud baselines, and vulnerability management at Discord. Requires 3+ years managing security engineers, deep systems security expertise, and cloud/software engineering experience.
Staff Product Marketing Manager to build and lead go-to-market strategy for Discord's Unified Developer Platform. Drive adoption among game developers and publishers through messaging, enablement programs, cross-functional partnerships, and metrics tracking to grow communities and player engagement.
Senior full-stack engineer on Discord's Growth team building and optimizing user discovery, onboarding, and activation experiences across frontend (TypeScript/React) and backend (Python) to drive user acquisition at scale. Requires 3+ years shipping web products, strong React/TypeScript expertise, Python/Flask experience, and A/B testing skills.
Program manage product, process, and detection initiatives on Discord's Youth Safety team to improve mitigations against child sexual exploitation and other harms. Requires 6-10 years program management experience in safety/threat detection, intermediate SQL, and a bachelor's degree.
Build and maintain full-stack features for Discord's Game Records systems that power gaming metadata, discovery, and social experiences. Requires 5+ years full-stack experience with React/TypeScript and Python (or similar), strong collaboration, project leadership, and a passion for gaming.
Lead architecture, design, and development of Salesforce solutions for Ad Sales at Discord. Architect integrations with MuleSoft, own DevOps/SDLC processes, lead 3rd-party teams, and provide L2/L3 support. Requires 6+ years Salesforce experience with Sales Cloud focus.
Own incident resolution, functional support, enhancements, and quarterly upgrades for Discord's Oracle Fusion ERP environment. Serve as key liaison to Finance stakeholders across AR, AP, GL, and Procurement while maintaining SOX/ITGC compliance.
Build and maintain long-range revenue forecasts, analyze subscription metrics, and partner with Product, Engineering, and GTM teams to drive revenue strategy at Discord.
Senior engineer building cross-platform commerce and gifting flows for Discord's Social Commerce product. Works across Python, TypeScript/React, Elixir, and Rust; leads projects end-to-end and collaborates closely with product, design, and game studios.
Lead product design for Discord's Developer Platform, creating tools and experiences for game studios and players. Partner with cross-functional teams to drive UX from concept through launch.
Lead product vision and roadmap for scaled abuse prevention at Discord, covering fake accounts, ATO, and scraping. Drive cross-functional execution with ML, security, and product teams to protect users.
Discord is seeking a Software Engineer to build and operate large-scale, reliable, and performant distributed systems. This role involves collaborating with product teams, managing infrastructure, and ensuring the platform's overall reliability and performance.
Lead and grow two engineering teams focused on safety backend, classification systems, and internal tooling. Drive automation roadmap with ML and ensure engineering quality.
Senior backend engineer to own and scale enforcement infrastructure processing millions of safety decisions daily. Requires 4+ years experience building distributed systems in Python on GCP with PostgreSQL, Redis, and gRPC.
Lead backend engineering for Discord's Safety Processing team, designing scalable Python systems to detect and remove harmful content using ML/AI and adversarial approaches.
Leads a full-stack engineering team building and operating Discord's scalable notifications platform using Elixir, Python, and Kubernetes. Partners cross-functionally to optimize engagement and retention through experimentation, while hands-on with technical direction and team growth.
Staff engineer leading Data Platform initiatives like scaling, stream processing, and GRC at massive scale. Requires 7+ years experience in distributed systems and data infrastructure, with strong architectural leadership and cross-functional influence.
Builds and improves premium features like Nitro, shop, and boosting across web, Android, and iOS for Discord's consumer revenue. Requires 5+ years experience, full-stack proficiency in React/React Native and Python.