# Staff Software Engineer, Safety Processing

**Company:** [Discord](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/discord)
**Location:** Unspecified
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $248k – $310k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Python, System Design, Architecture, Ml/Ai Models, Content Moderation, Backend Systems, On-Call, TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Rust
**Posted:** 2026-05-15

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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

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