Discord - Engineering Manager, Platform Security
Requirements
• 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 • This position is West Coast (U.S.) based and can be remote but if you live in the Bay Area, you’re welcome to work from our beautiful SF office. • The US base salary range for this full-time position is $248,000 to $310,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits. • Why Discord? Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests, and helps developers build and grow their businesses. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Your future is just a click away!
Responsibilities
• You’ll shape company-wide security strategy and lead a highly-autonomous and horizontally-integrated team of software engineers who will... • Develop and apply best-in-class secure baselines for cloud infrastructure, owning the security of all cloud environments • Manage infrastructure vulnerabilities while supporting a high-velocity engineering org with hundreds of developers • Secure first- and third-party software supply chains, from the dev environment through CI/CD and into production • Build and operate identity and access management (IAM) systems for humans and machines that are user-friendly and promote least privilege • Consult on risk assessments, architectural designs, threat models, code reviews, and more—pragmatically balancing security with other business considerations • What we look for • What we look for • 3+ years of experience as people manager, having managed a team of 3+ security software engineers • Passion for creating diverse and inclusive teams and coaching engineers • 3+ years of experience securing systems with millions of users • Comfort with writing the roadmap, not just following one • Experience building in and securing cloud-based environments (we use GCP, Cloudflare, and AWS) • Expert reasoning about the security of complex systems, even if they contain unfamiliar components • Experience writing software in a general-purpose programming language (we use Python, Typescript, and Rust) • Experience developing with agentic AI, and a good grasp of AI security practices
Benefits
• Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process. We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know. • Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process. • Please see our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy for details regarding Discord’s collection and usage of personal information relating to the application and recruitment process by clicking HERE.
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