Senior Software Engineer - Safety Experience
- 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.
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.
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

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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