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About the Role
Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does: play video games. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games.
More broadly, Discord is about empowering people to find belonging in all kinds of communities, and those people trust us to keep their communications safe. Our Platform Security Engineering team protects the systems we use to create Discord, making the “secure way” the “easy way.”
We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team of software engineers in articulating and pursuing the most leveraged opportunities to reduce security risk across Engineering. This team will design and build lovable “paved paths” for managing identities and access, shipping code, configuring cloud infrastructure, and operating services. If you’re an Engineering Manager who’s deeply curious, eager to own technically and socially complex projects, and excited to improve security and privacy at Discord, read on!
Why Discord?
Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests, and helps developers build and grow their businesses. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission!
Key Technical Responsibilities
- check_circle Shape company-wide security strategy and lead a highly-autonomous and horizontally-integrated team of software engineers
- check_circle Develop and apply best-in-class secure baselines for cloud infrastructure, owning the security of all cloud environments
- check_circle Manage infrastructure vulnerabilities while supporting a high-velocity engineering org with hundreds of developers
- check_circle Secure first- and third-party software supply chains, from the dev environment through CI/CD and into production
- check_circle Build and operate identity and access management (IAM) systems for humans and machines that are user-friendly and promote least privilege
- check_circle Consult on risk assessments, architectural designs, threat models, code reviews, and more—pragmatically balancing security with other business considerations
Prerequisites & Qualifications
- check 3+ years of experience as people manager, having managed a team of 3+ security software engineers
- check Passion for creating diverse and inclusive teams and coaching engineers
- check 3+ years of experience securing systems with millions of users
- check Comfort with writing the roadmap, not just following one
- check Experience building in and securing cloud-based environments (we use GCP, Cloudflare, and AWS)
- check Expert reasoning about the security of complex systems, even if they contain unfamiliar components
- check Experience writing software in a general-purpose programming language (we use Python, Typescript, and Rust)
- check Experience developing with agentic AI, and a good grasp of AI security practices
About Discord Greenhouse Board
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Discord is a voice, video, and text communication service used by tens of millions of people to talk and hang out with their communities and friends. Operating primarily out of the San Francisco Bay Area, Discord's engineering and product teams build real-time, low-latency communication infrastructure designed to support massive scale, gaming communities, and diverse social spaces.