Senior Software Engineer, Safety Backend

Discord
Los Angeles, California, United States
Full Time
On Site
Senior
USD 196,000 – 220,500
Software Information Technology Telecommunications

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Job summary

Discord seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead critical enforcement infrastructure within the Safety Processing team, focusing on scaling, stabilizing, and evolving content moderation systems. The role involves developing distributed backend services, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and improving enforcement metrics to ensure user safety at scale.

Responsibilities

Own and scale critical infrastructure for Discord's enforcement systems to translate safety decisions into real-world actions. Partner with cross-functional teams to improve production services and define enforcement metrics.

Qualifications

Automation Content Moderation Distributed Systems Enforcement Infrastructure GCP gRPC PostgreSQL Python Redis Rust

Requires 4+ years of professional backend engineering experience with strong Python skills and expertise in operating distributed systems at scale. Must possess an adversarial mindset to anticipate system abuse and experience with 24/7 on-call rotations.

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