Staff Software Engineer, Safety Experience

The Safety Experience team builds product features and systems that prevent harmful activity at scale while maintaining regulatory compliance for Discord's user base. The role involves leading complex, ambiguous projects end-to-end, designing and deploying backend services and APIs, and collaborating with product, design, policy, legal, and data science teams. The engineer is expected to act as a technical leader who drives engineering standards and mentors others while remaining a hands-on contributor.

• 8+ years of industry experience with strong Python and backend framework skills (Flask, Django), plus front-end experience with JavaScript/React/TypeScript. Significant background in safety or anti-abuse domains, ability to own large ambiguous projects, strong code review and mentoring experience, and familiarity with data/monitoring tools like Datadog or Mode. Experience with AI-assisted dev tools is expected; knowledge of Cassandra, Kafka, mobile development, or lower-level languages like Go/Rust/Elixir is a plus.