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Software Engineer, Safety Experience

Software EngineerSoftware EngineerFull TimeRemoteMid LevelTeam 501-1,000Since 2015H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

67 days ago

Salary

$160K - $180K / year

Seniority

Mid Level

Job Description

Software Engineer, Safety Experience

Discord

Discord is used by over 200 million people every month for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does on our platform: play video games. Over 90% of our users play games, spending a combined 1.5 billion hours playing thousands of unique titles on Discord each month. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games. As an Engineer on the Safety Experience team, you’ll help make Discord’s platform safer for hundreds of millions of users. You’ll contribute to designing, building, and maintaining product features and systems that prevent harmful activities while ensuring regulatory compliance. Keeping users safe is essential for Discord’s growth, making your team’s work critical. This role reports to the Engineering Manager of Safety Experience. What You'll Be Doing - Contribute to the development of highly visible, user-facing products that protect Discord’s users. - Design, build, and deploy 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. - Support rapid responses to the ever-evolving abuse and compliance landscape. What you should have - 2+ years of experience writing Python and utilizing back-end API frameworks (Flask, Django). - 2+ years of experience developing front-end interfaces with JavaScript (React, TypeScript) for both web and mobile platforms. - Familiarity with databases such as Cassandra, Postgres, and ScyllaDB. - Ability to contribute to end-to-end delivery of projects: working through ambiguity, participating in rollouts, and communicating with stakeholders. - Ability to troubleshoot, debug, and test complex systems in a live, production environment. - Strong 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. Bonus Points - Interest 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. Candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties). Relocation assistance may be available. For this role, there is no formal requirement to work from the office. The US base salary range for this full-time position is $160,000 to $180,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits. 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. 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! Your future is just a click away! Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process. We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know. Please see our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy for details regarding Discord’s collection and usage of personal information relating to the application and recruitment process by clicking HERE.

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