Staff Software Engineer, Enterprise Platform

Discord•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

Discord's Enterprise Technology organization is building a software engineering discipline from the ground up, and this is the founding engineering hire for the Enterprise Platform team. The role involves defining the discipline, setting the technical foundation, and building the platform that enables internal systems to scale with the company. The mission is to transform enterprise infrastructure into self-service software by replacing manual processes with a platform of reusable primitives, building blocks like 'provision a device' or 'push an IAM policy or app integration through code,' exposed through clean APIs and self-service portals. As a code-forward Staff engineer, the focus is on designing abstractions that simplify complex tools like Okta, Jamf, and Terraform, operating with a platform-as-a-product mindset.

Requirements

6+ years building and operating production software and systems at a technology company, with a track record of owning ambiguous projects end to end.
Strong software engineering fundamentals.
Production code development (Python, TypeScript, and Rust), design, testing, and shipping.
Deep, hands-on IAM experience (SSO, SCIM, OAuth/OIDC, RBAC) and fluency with infrastructure as code (Terraform) and CI/CD.
Experience treating endpoint and fleet management as an API-driven engineering surface at scale.
A platform-as-a-product mindset; experience building self-service tooling that people chose to adopt.
Comfort with ambiguity and a founder's temperament; energized by building from scratch.

Nice To Haves

Hands-on experience with Okta, Jamf, or Intune.
Experience with identity and access governance for non-human, workload, or AI-agent principals.
Background at a high-growth consumer tech company with a highly technical employee base.

Responsibilities

Manage the device fleet as code: Move device configuration off consoles and into versioned, API-driven infrastructure for endpoint management and hardware provisioning.
Automate the identity layer: Manage identity systems and their connections to downstream apps as code, from SSO and SCIM integrations to account workflows, so changes ship through version control and CI/CD instead of an admin console.
Own app delivery and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC): Build deployment pipelines and provisioning patterns that let internal systems be built and changed safely, establishing CI/CD standards.
Build the self-service layer: Design and ship the APIs, CLIs, and portals that compose primitives into paved paths, like a new hire's first day, where software access and group memberships land in one automated, auditable flow.
Set the foundation: Define the technical direction and architecture for the discipline, writing the RFCs and documentation that future hires will build on.