Discord

Discord is an online voice, video, and text communication platform designed for creating communities.

501-1000 employees

Founded 2015

Internet

Private Company

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This position is West Coast (U.S.) based and can be remoteFull-TimeGaming platformPosted

Senior Software Engineer, Application Security

Design and implement full-stack, user-facing security solutions to protect Discord users.
Lead full-stack work to strengthen session security and authentication.
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 security capabilities for the Discord platform, staying current on authentication and session security.
Build self-service, automated, and performant security controls and tools to identify and mitigate account security flaws.

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About Discord

Discord is a dynamic communication platform, fostering communities for over 200 million monthly users. While originally built for gamers, 90% of users spend 1.5 billion hours playing thousands of unique titles each month, now it also serves diverse communities from hiking clubs to art communities and study groups. We provide a seamless experience for friends and communities to talk, hang out, and deepen their connections through voice, video, and and text. Discord aims to build the “community” layer of the internet, helping you find, join, and interact in servers personalized for your custom experiences.

How We Work

Discord embraces a flexible work model, allowing you to choose whether you work from home, in one of our offices like the San Francisco HQ, or a blend of both. Our leadership philosophy is bottoms-up; managers act as support and guidance for individual contributors, fostering an environment of autonomy, mastery, purpose, and compassion. We emphasize constant, digestible feedback, creating a fast learning cycle for growth and improvement. Engineers have significant control over design and code, contributing to a fast-paced yet principled development process.

Engineering at Discord

Discord engineers tackle the challenge of scaling a communication platform that processes massive amounts of voice, video, and text data for millions of users daily. We focus on creating an extensible platform with a thriving developer ecosystem, built for gamers by gamers, providing social communication infrastructure for modern games. You'll find a mature system and toolset, allowing you to focus on product development without worrying about infrastructure, CI, or deployment. We leverage technologies like HSTS, Cloudflare CDN, Apache, Amazon, Microsoft Azure DNS, and Google Cloud CDN to ensure a robust and reliable user experience.

Why Join Us

Impact a platform used by over 200 million people monthly, shaping how communities connect and interact.
Contribute to an inclusive culture where your growth is supported through a bottoms-up leadership philosophy and continuous feedback.
Work on challenging technical problems at scale, using modern tools and an extensible platform to innovate the future of communication.
Join a passionate team deeply committed to gaming and fostering meaningful connections.

Benefits & Perks

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
Generous parental leave, fertility, and adoption benefits.
401(K) and 401(K) matching.
16+ paid holidays and 4 weeks of PTO.
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff and unconscious bias training.
Commuter benefits and fitness stipend.

Tech Stack

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