# Senior Software Engineer, Enforce - Safety Processing

**Company:** [Discord](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/discord)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $196k – $221k/yr
**Experience:** 4+ years
**Skills:** Python, GCP, Postgres, Redis, Pub/Sub, gRPC, Rust, Datadog
**Posted:** 2026-05-27

> 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.

## Job Description

## What You'll Be Doing
- Own high impact projects within a complex distributed system from end-to-end that help Safety at Discord scale.
- Improve production services that process millions of enforcement decisions per day, including participating in the team's 24/7 on-call rotation.
- Apply an adversarial mindset to enforcement systems to anticipate abuse patterns, edge cases, and failure modes in systems that must be accurate, fair, and legally compliant.
- Partner with Trust & Safety, Policy, ML, Data Science, and Legal teams to deliver enforcement changes ranging from policy updates to compliance-critical pipeline improvements.
- Contribute to measurement foundations by working with Data Science to define and baseline enforcement metrics like recidivism rate, over-enforcement rate, and unintended churn.

## What You Should Have
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience with a focus on backend services and infrastructure.
- Strong programming skills in Python.
- Experience building and operating distributed systems and production services at scale (use GCP, PostgreSQL, Redis, Pub/Sub, KKV, and gRPC).
- Demonstrated ability to own projects end-to-end and deliver results on time, including in ambiguous or transitional environments.
- Strong debugging skills and ability to navigate complex, multi-service codebases.
- Demonstrated adversarial thinking. The ability to anticipate misuse, edge cases, and system vulnerabilities in systems that bad actors are actively trying to circumvent.
- Experience being in 24/7 on-call rotations.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills, including experience working across Trust & Safety, Policy, Legal, or Operations stakeholders.
- Using Gen AI products, like Claude Code, as part of your daily workflow.

## Bonus Points
- Experience with content moderation, trust & safety, enforcement infrastructure, or related problem domains.
- Familiarity with Rust.
- Familiarity with legally mandated reporting pipelines or compliance-sensitive systems.
- Experience with workflow automation or decision systems, particularly handler-based or rules-driven enforcement architectures.
- Experience with observability tooling, defining SLOs, building dashboards, and instrumenting distributed systems with Datadog or similar.
- A strong passion for Discord and making online communities safer.

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