Senior Software Engineer - Safety Experience

Discord is a multiplatform community platform focused on helping people connect around gaming and shared interests. The Senior Software Engineer on the Safety Experience team will lead the development of user-facing safety products, backend services, APIs, data pipelines, and tooling that protect users and support regulatory compliance at scale.

Responsibilities:

• Lead development of highly‑visible, user‑facing products that protect Discord's users
• Design, build, and deploy robust production APIs, backend services, and data pipelines to launch safety features at scale
• Collaborate cross‑functionally with Product, Design, Policy, Data Science, ML, Legal, and T&S Operations to create solutions that are both impactful and lovable
• Iterate on in-house tooling to supercharge our T&S workflows
• Respond rapidly to the ever‑evolving abuse and compliance landscape

Requirements:

• 5+ years experience writing Python and utilizing back-end API frameworks (Flask, Django)
• 5+ years experience developing front-end interfaces with JavaScript (React, TypeScript) for both web and mobile platforms
• Familiarity with databases such as Cassandra, Postgres, and ScyllaDB
• Demonstrated success leading end‑to‑end delivery of complex projects: breaking down ambiguity, coordinating rollouts, and aligning stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot, debug, and test complex systems in a live, production environment
• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work well with cross-functional partners, designers, and other engineers
• Experience using metrics and dashboards to make data-driven decisions and develop insightful reports
• Experience in the Safety or Anti‑Abuse domain
• Experience analyzing and visualizing data using Datadog or Mode
• Familiarity with real‑time streaming systems like Kafka or Pub-Sub
• Ability to contribute to offline analytics jobs and processes
• Experience building and operating mobile‑client features on iOS and Android
• Exposure to lower‑level languages such as Go, Rust, and Elixir
• A strong moral compass that drives you to protect users and do the right thing