Senior Software Engineer, Application Security

Discord•San Francisco, CA

6d•Remote

About The Position

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. This position is US-based only. Discord empowers people to create spaces where they can find a sense of belonging in their lives. Millions of people trust Discord to keep their communications secure, private, and out of the hands of evildoers, so security and privacy are necessary to Discord's success. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Application Security team and protect Discord’s users where it matters most, their accounts. If you are an engineer with a wealth of experience making the secure way the easy way, a deep sense of curiosity, and an endless desire to improve Discord, read on!

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.