Engineering Manager, Platform Security
About The Position
Discord is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team of software engineers in identifying and pursuing opportunities to reduce security risk across Engineering. This team will be responsible for designing and building systems for managing identities and access, shipping code, configuring cloud infrastructure, and operating services. The role involves shaping company-wide security strategy and leading a highly-autonomous team to build and operate identity and access management (IAM) systems, secure software supply chains, develop secure baselines for cloud infrastructure, manage infrastructure vulnerabilities, and consult on security-related matters. Discord is a platform used by millions for gaming and community building, and the Platform Security Engineering team is crucial in protecting the systems that create Discord, making security the easy way. The ideal candidate is deeply curious, eager to own complex projects, and excited about improving security and privacy at Discord.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience as a 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 (GCP, Cloudflare, and AWS)
- Experience writing software in a general-purpose programming language (Python, Typescript, and Rust)
- Experience developing with agentic AI, and a good grasp of AI security practices
Nice To Haves
- 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
Responsibilities
- 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
Benefits
- equity
- benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
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