# Staff Software Engineer, Platform Security

**Company:** [Discord](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/discord)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $248k – $279k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, Rust, Kubernetes, Docker, GCP, Cloudflare, AWS, Terraform, Bazel, Buildkite
**Posted:** 2026-02-03

> Staff Software Engineer leading platform security initiatives, building secure IAM systems, cloud infrastructure baselines, and supply chain security tools. Requires 5+ years in production systems, software development in Python/Rust, and securing large-scale cloud environments.

## Job Description

## What you'll do

- Shape company-wide security strategy and lead software engineering projects on a highly-autonomous and horizontally-integrated team. **This is a code-forward role!**
- Develop and apply best-in-class secure baselines for cloud infrastructure.
- Secure first- and third-party software supply chains, from the dev environment through CI/CD and into production.
- Build and own identity and access management (IAM) systems that are user-friendly and promote least privilege.
- Manage infrastructure vulnerabilities while supporting rapid growth for Engineering.
- Consult on risk assessments, architectural designs, threat models, code reviews, and more—pragmatically balancing security with other business considerations.

## Example projects

- Support IAM with scalable platform solutions.
- Build tooling to prevent and address vulnerabilities across our infrastructure.
- Integrate service-to-service authentication and authorization into Discord’s internal developer platform.

## What we look for

- 5+ years of experience building and operating production systems or infrastructure
- 5+ years of experience writing software in a general-purpose programming language (we mainly use Python and Rust)
- 4+ years of experience securing systems with millions of users
- Experience mentoring junior ICs and leading technical projects involving multiple engineers and spanning multiple quarters
- Experience designing and building software for customers (internal or external) beyond your immediate team
- Experience securing cloud environments (e.g. GCP, Cloudflare, AWS)
- Experience defining and orchestrating containers (e.g. via Kubernetes, Docker, Distroless, OCI)
- Familiarity with build and CI/CD technologies (e.g. Terraform, Bazel, Buildkite)
- Understanding of modern authentication and authorization concepts (e.g. RBAC, OAuth, Zero Trust network architectures, mTLS)

## Bonus points if you have…

- Developed and debugged distributed systems atop GCP and Cloudflare
- Led complex migrations or risk management programs across an engineering organization
- A system to discover industry tools that can multiply your team’s impact
- Experience securing multi-cloud environments
- Built or operated a service mesh (e.g. Envoy, Istio)
- Managed and secured VMs or bare-metal hosts (e.g. Linux, Salt)

**US base salary range: $248,000 to $279,000 + equity + benefits.**

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