# Staff Software Engineer - Safety Experience

**Company:** [Discord](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/discord)
**Location:** Unspecified
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $248k – $279k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Python, Flask, Django, JavaScript, React, TypeScript, Datadog, Cassandra, Postgres, Kafka
**Posted:** 2026-02-03

> Leads development of scalable safety products and backend systems to prevent abuse and ensure compliance at Discord. Requires 8+ years experience, Python/JS expertise, and safety domain knowledge.

## Job Description

## What You'll Be Doing
- Lead development of high-impact, user-facing safety products that deliver measurable results for Discord's users.
- Own complex, multi-milestone projects end-to-end, identifying optimal solutions, navigating ambiguity and making independent technical decisions.
- Design, build, and deploy robust production APIs, backend services, and data pipelines that enable safety features to scale efficiently.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, Policy, Data Science, ML, Legal, and Trust & Safety Operations to create solutions that are both impactful and lovable.
- Drive engineering excellence by mentoring others and guiding the team through architectural challenges to ensure long-term scalability.
- Respond rapidly to the ever-evolving abuse and compliance landscape with strategic thinking and swift execution.

## What You Should Have
- 8+ years of relevant industry experience, with demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality, high-impact work on complex projects.
- Strong expertise in **Python** and back-end API frameworks (**Flask**, **Django**).
- Strong front-end development skills with **JavaScript** (**React**, **TypeScript**) for web and mobile platforms.
- Significant experience in the Safety or Anti-Abuse domain with deep understanding of trust and safety challenges at scale.
- Proven track record of owning large projects end-to-end with varying degrees of ambiguity, breaking down work into well-prioritized milestones with clear dependencies.
- Demonstrated ability to make independent technical decisions that balance short-term needs with long-term sustainability and scalability.
- Experience driving engineering excellence: setting quality standards, conducting thorough code reviews, and applying an adversarial mindset to identify security, performance, and scaling issues.
- Strong communication skills with ability to provide high-quality technical feedback, drive alignment across stakeholders, and facilitate productive debates that lead to clear decisions.
- Experience using metrics and dashboards (e.g., **Datadog**, **Mode**, **Faros**) to make data-driven decisions and monitor system health.
- Ability to be a force multiplier for your team by mentoring others, establishing best practices, and helping teammates grow their skills.

## Bonus Points
- Familiarity with databases such as **Cassandra**, **Postgres**, or **ScyllaDB**.
- Experience with real-time streaming systems like **Kafka** or **Pub-Sub**.
- Track record of building and operating native mobile features on iOS and Android.
- Experience designing and implementing monitoring strategies and on-call/on-point processes for production systems.
- Knowledge of lower-level languages such as **Go**, **Rust**, or **Elixir**.

## Compensation
US base salary range: $248,000 - $279,000 + equity + benefits.

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