Staff Software Engineer, Safety Processing
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.
About the job
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
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build tools for content moderation and related compliance efforts, including in-house solutions and vendors
- Implement and enhance ML/AI models and automation to improve efficiency in content moderation and decision-making processes
- Build solutions with an adversarial mindset, anticipating and addressing safety challenges such as malicious behavior and illegal content
- Drive workstreams and provide leadership to the team, mobilizing others to accomplish projects
Requirements
- Extensive experience developing and maintaining backend systems using Python
- Strong system design and architecture skills with the ability to build scalable, reliable systems for content moderation on large-scale projects
- Ability to define workstreams, lead projects, and guide other engineers through implementation
- Experience in a domain that required an adversarial mindset such as trust, safety, security, or privacy
- Experience being in a 24/7 on-call rotation for production systems
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience working with ML/AI models in content moderation
- Familiarity with Typescript/Javascript/React and frontend technologies
- Familiarity with Rust
- Previous experience at companies with a strong focus on safety, security, or trust & safety
Skills
Python, System Design, Architecture, Ml/Ai Models, Content Moderation, Backend Systems, On-Call, TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Rust
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