Senior Software Engineer - Safety Experience

Discord

Location
San Francisco Bay Area
Salary range
USD $196,000 – $245,000 base
Workplace
In office
Level
Senior / Staff IC
Job family
Engineering
Posted
3 weeks ago

The T&S Network estimates this role to be P3, Senior. The typical base salary for that level in Safety Engineering & Data Science is $160k to $230k 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.

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Why this level

Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: the title reads as P3 · asks for 5+ years · posts $196k to $245k base at a company of 500 to 5,000 in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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The role, in T&S terms

Written by the T&S Network from Discord's posting.

Engineering work on the Safety Experience team at Discord, a platform used by millions of daily users, mostly for gaming and hanging out. The team builds user-facing product features and backend systems that prevent harmful activity and meet regulatory compliance requirements.

What you'd do

  • Lead development of highly visible, user-facing products that protect Discord users.
  • Partner with Product, Policy, Legal, Data Science, ML, and T&S Operations on shared solutions.
  • Iterate on in-house tooling that supports T&S workflows.
  • Respond quickly as the abuse and compliance landscape changes.

What it asks for

  • 5+ years writing Python and building back-end APIs with frameworks such as Flask or Django.
  • 5+ years writing front-end code in React and TypeScript for web and mobile.
  • Working knowledge of Cassandra, Postgres, or ScyllaDB.
  • Track record leading end-to-end delivery of complex projects, including coordinating rollouts and aligning stakeholders.
  • Skilled at finding and fixing faults in complex systems while they run live.
  • Comfortable using metrics and dashboards to drive decisions and write reports.
  • Experience in the Safety or Anti-Abuse domain (preferred).

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About Discord

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About Discord

Social platforms · Gaming · San Francisco, CA · 501 to 1,000 people · Founded 2015

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Voice, video and text chat platform organized around servers and communities.

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