Engineering Manager, Safety
- Location
- San Francisco Bay Area, Greater Seattle Area, Greater Los Angeles Area (U.S.)
- Salary range
- USD $279,000 – $310,000 base
- Workplace
- In office
- Level
- Manager
- Job family
- Engineering
- Posted
- 2 months ago
The T&S Network estimates this role to be M3, Manager. The typical base salary for that level in Safety Engineering & Data Science is $140k to $210k at an employer this size in the San Francisco Bay Area. Key skills at this level: owns a detection system end to end, including its drift and its retraining, designs for adversarial pressure rather than for a static distribution, and sets evaluation methodology others in the company adopt.
Why this level
Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: the posting states the level in its title · the title reads as M3 · asks for 5+ years · posts $279k to $310k base at a company of 500 to 5,000 in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The role, in T&S terms
Written by the T&S Network from Discord's posting.
Engineering management for the team that turns reports and signals into enforcement decisions on Discord. The team builds LLM pipelines that review reported content, the systems that carry out enforcement, the appeals path, and the tooling investigators and content reviewers use. The posting says the team's problem is automating the ambiguous, high-stakes review end while getting users fast and fair appeal answers.
What you'd do
- Lead three squads, Review, Enforce, and Tooling, through their tech leads on automated review, enforcement, and appeals
- Push automated review toward nearly all decisions while holding precision and recall against a human baseline
- Rebuild appeals into one path for every eligible appeal, with review tooling that scores decision quality
- Build checks that catch enforcement mistakes before they reach good users
- Make a user's enforcement history traceable so their current status can be followed back through each action
- Handle child-safety and regulatory compliance work in parallel with the product roadmap
- Hire, grow, and coach the engineering team
What it asks for
- 5+ years as a software engineer with a backend and distributed systems background
- 2+ years managing engineers
- Experience shipping LLM systems in production where output is a business decision
- Have worked with ops or human-review teams on quality checks, reviewer calibration, and appeals
- Ability to stay technical in design reviews and incidents
- Excellent cross-functional communication with engineering, ML, policy, legal, and product
Worth knowing
- Handles legal deadlines, serious incidents, and regulator attention under pressure
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About Discord

The employer
About Discord
Social platforms · Gaming · San Francisco, CA · 501 to 1,000 people · Founded 2015
Voice, video and text chat platform organized around servers and communities.
Moderation, reported
Discord filed 529K moderation decisions for Discord Netherlands B.V. with the European Commission for May 2026.
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