Senior Software Engineer, Application Security

About the role

Join an engineering team designing and implementing full-stack, user-facing security solutions that protect hundreds of millions of Discord users. You’ll lead full-stack work to strengthen session security and authentication, improve and maintain security-critical authentication services, and partner with Product teams to drive adoption of stronger authentication and ship user-facing account security tools. You’ll also identify and design solutions for emerging threats, research and implement new security capabilities, and build security controls and tools that emphasize self-service, automation, and performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead full-stack development to strengthen session security and authentication for Discord’s users.
• Improve, operate, and maintain security-critical authentication services, owning their correctness and security.
• Partner with Product teams to drive adoption of stronger authentication and ship user-facing account security tools.
• Identify and design solutions for emerging threats to user account security.
• Research and implement new security capabilities for the Discord platform, staying current on the authentication and session security landscape.
• Build security controls and tools that emphasize self-service, automation, and performance to help identify and mitigate account security flaws.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience securing production applications.
• 3+ years of experience programming in at least one general-purpose programming language (e.g., Python, Go, Java, or Rust).
• Hands-on experience building and shipping production software, including security features, controls, frameworks, or guardrails.
• Hands-on experience with authentication and account security, such as WebAuthn, passkeys, FIDO2, MFA, and session management.
• Comfortable reasoning about the security of complex systems and providing clear, sound guidance on secure design and implementation.
• Experience leading security projects with cross-functional groups.
• Experience building or hardening client applications, such as desktop or native mobile apps.
• Experience operating in cloud-based environments (Google Cloud preferred, but other platforms are okay).
• 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.

Skills

• Bonus points for experience programming in at least one systems programming language (e.g., C, C++).
• Experience developing, operating, and debugging production systems.
• Familiarity with common application vulnerabilities on the platforms Discord ships on (desktop, mobile, and web).

Pay

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $196,000 to $245,000 + equity + benefits. Individual pay is determined by job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.