Engineering Manager, Platform Security

What You'll Do

• Shape company-wide security strategy
• Lead a highly-autonomous and horizontally-integrated team of software engineers
• Build and operate identity and access management (IAM) systems for humans and machines that are user-friendly and promote least privilege
• Secure first- and third-party software supply chains, from the dev environment through CI/CD and into production
• Develop and apply best-in-class secure baselines for cloud infrastructure
• Manage infrastructure vulnerabilities while supporting a high-velocity engineering org with hundreds of developers
• Consult on risk assessments, architectural designs, threat models, code reviews, and more—pragmatically balancing security with other business considerations

What We Look For

• 3+ years of experience as people manager, having managed a team of 3+ security software engineers
• Passion for creating diverse and inclusive teams and coaching engineers
• Comfort with writing the roadmap, not just following one
• 3+ years of experience securing systems with millions of users
• Expert reasoning about the security of complex systems, even if they contain unfamiliar components
• Experience building in and securing cloud-based environments (we use GCP, Cloudflare, and AWS)
• Experience writing software in a general-purpose programming language (we use Python, Typescript, and Rust)
• Experience developing with agentic AI, and a good grasp of AI security practices

Bonus Points

• Understanding of modern authentication and authorization concepts (e.g. RBAC, OAuth, Zero Trust network architectures, mTLS)
• Familiarity with build and CI/CD technologies (e.g. Terraform, Bazel, Buildkite, Spacelift)
• Experience defining and orchestrating containers (e.g. via Kubernetes, Docker, Distroless, OCI) and serverless workloads (e.g. Cloudflare Workers)
• Experience with running and operationalizing security platforms such as Wiz

Why Discord?

Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigeneration, 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!

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