--- title: 'Senior Software Engineer - Safety Experience at Discord' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-software-engineer-safety-experience-discord-san-francisco-sp92vp8w2bwj' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-24' --- # Senior Software Engineer - Safety Experience at Discord - **Company:** Discord - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Posted:** 2026-09-18 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-24 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/discord/jobs/8817776002 ## Job description 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. As a Senior Engineer on the Safety Experience team, you'll lead the charge in making Discord's platform safer for hundreds of millions of users. You'll design, build, and maintain 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 - Lead development of highly‑visible, user‑facing products that protect Discord's users. - Design, build, and deploy robust 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. - Iterate on in-house tooling to supercharge our T&S workflows. - Respond rapidly to the ever‑evolving abuse and compliance landscape. ## What you should have - 5+ years experience writing Python and utilizing back-end API frameworks (Flask, Django). - 5+ years experience developing front-end interfaces with JavaScript (React, TypeScript) for both web and mobile platforms. - Familiarity with databases such as Cassandra, Postgres, and ScyllaDB. - Demonstrated success leading end‑to‑end delivery of complex projects: breaking down ambiguity, coordinating rollouts, and aligning stakeholders. - Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot, debug, and test complex systems in a live, production environment. - Exceptional 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 and develop insightful reports. Bonus Points - Experience 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. The US base salary range for this full-time position is $196,000 to $245,000 + 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, 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! 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.](https://discord.com/terms/applicant-candidate-privacy-policy) ## About Discord ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Discord is a voice, video, and text communication platform designed to help friends and communities hang out and play games together. - **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage not disclosed in available sources) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA - **Founded**: 2015 - **Founders**: Jason Citron and Stanislav Vishnevskiy ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Gaming communication and social platform - **Target customers**: B2C – gamers, gaming communities, and friends; also B2B via in-game chat integrations - **Mission or purpose**: To be the best place to talk before, during, and after playing games, enabling meaningful connections around the joy of gaming. ## Products & Services - **Discord Platform (Voice, Video, Text)**: A free-to-use app for 1:1 DMs, group DMs, and Servers where users can communicate in real-time. Features include high-quality streaming, in-game overlay, Soundboard, Voice Messages, and Activities (playable games inside Discord). - **Discord API & SDK**: Allows developers to build bots, integrations, and in-game chat powered by Discord (e.g., used by Pax Dei and Omega Strikers). - **Discord App Launcher**: Lets users enjoy Activities and apps directly within Discord. - **Rich Presence API**: Enables games to display player activity on Discord profiles. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company) - **Key Metric**: 90+ million daily active users (DAU) as of Q4 2025 (internal data) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not detailed in provided sources; known from general knowledge includes Greylock, Index Ventures, Accel, and Tencent (but not cited here) - **Growth Signals**: - 90%+ of Discord users play video games; ~40% start a game within an hour of using Discord. - Expanded in-game voice chat support to PS5 and PC. - Launched in-game overlay, Soundboard, Voice Messages, and Activities. - New CEO Humam Sakhnini (former Activision Blizzard/King executive) appointed in Spring 2025. ## Competitive Advantages - **Gaming-first focus**: Deep integration with gaming ecosystems (console, PC, mobile) and features built specifically for gamers. - **Massive, engaged user base**: 90M+ DAU with high daily activity and strong community stickiness. - **Platform lock-in**: Users build social networks within Discord servers, making switching costly. - **Developer ecosystem**: API and SDK power hundreds of thousands of apps and in-game chat integrations. ## Strategic Focus - Continue making Discord the most reliable and feature-rich platform for gaming conversations. - Expand in-game voice/text chat partnerships (e.g., Pax Dei, Omega Strikers). - Invest in Safety platform (dedicated engineering teams, Safety Processing, Enforce, Experience). - Grow revenue through monetization features (Nitro subscriptions, game sales, and ads – hinted by job postings for "Revenue" teams). ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Emphasizes seven principles: Strive for Excellence, Cultivate Belonging, Deliver for Customers, Embrace the Brutal Facts, Progress Over Perfection, Debate/Decide/Commit, Surprise & Delight. Employees use Discord daily and share a passion for gaming. - **Work model**: Flexible – in-person at San Francisco HQ, remote, or hybrid. "Great work can happen anywhere." - **Benefits** (US full-time): - Competitive compensation with equity, 401k matching. - 4 weeks PTO, 16 paid holidays (including winter break), flexible sick time (including mental health days). - 12+ weeks parental leave, fertility/adoption/surrogacy benefits. - Medical, dental, vision, reproductive, gender-affirming, and mental healthcare. - $375 quarterly wellness stipend. - $1,000/year donation matching, 2 volunteer days off. - **Engineering culture**: Strong focus on data, safety, and infrastructure; managers go through leadership training; many open roles in Core Tech, Safety, Data, and Machine Learning. ## Sources 1. [discord.com/careers](https://discord.com/careers) 2. [discord.com/company](https://discord.com/company) 3. [discord.com/blog/the-seven-principles-of-working-at-discord](https://discord.com/blog/the-seven-principles-of-working-at-discord) 4. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/discord](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/discord) 5. 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