Platform Security Engineer

About the company

• Discord is a platform with millions of daily active users, focused on gaming communities.
• The Platform Security Engineering team protects the systems used to create Discord.

Responsibilities

• Own software engineering projects end-to-end on a highly autonomous team.
• Define identity for autonomous agents and non-human actors at Discord.
• Build and evolve Access, Discord's employee authorization platform.
• Design and harden Zero Trust architecture.
• Automate continuous permission right-sizing.
• Develop secure baselines for cloud identity and secure software supply chain.
• Consult on risk assessments, architectural designs, threat models, code reviews.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building and operating production systems or infrastructure.
• 3+ years of experience writing software in a general-purpose programming language (Python, TypeScript, Rust).
• 3+ years of experience securing systems with millions of users.
• Experience building or operating identity and access management systems.
• Understanding of modern authentication and authorization concepts (RBAC, OAuth, OIDC, SSO, Zero Trust, mTLS, cloud IAM).
• Experience building in and securing multi-cloud environments (GCP, Cloudflare, AWS).
• Experience designing and building software for customers.

Conditions

• Based in San Francisco office, 1-2 days a week in office.
• US base salary range: $196,000 to $245,000 + equity + benefits.