Senior Software Engineer, Application Security

Discord•San Francisco, CA

7d•$196,000 - $220,500•Remote

About The Position

Discord is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join its Application Security team. This role focuses on protecting user accounts and communications, ensuring security and privacy are paramount to Discord's success. The engineer will design and implement full-stack, user-facing security solutions, strengthen session security and authentication, and identify and address emerging threats. This US-based position requires a strong sense of curiosity and a desire to improve Discord's security posture.

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, even if they contain components you aren’t familiar with, and can give engineers clear, sound guidance on secure design and implementation.
Experience leading security projects with a cross-functional group.
Experience building or hardening client applications, such as desktop or native mobile apps.
Experience operating in cloud-based environments (we use Google Cloud, but experience with other platforms is okay too).

Nice To Haves

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 (that's all of them).

Responsibilities

Join an engineering team designing and implementing full-stack, user-facing security solutions that protect hundreds of millions of Discord users.
Lead full-stack work 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 to 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.