Senior Platform Security Engineer

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States

Salary: $196,000–$245,000 US base salary per year, plus equity and benefits

Company

Discord is a multiplatform gaming and community platform that helps people connect around shared interests and enables developers to build and grow their businesses.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end software engineering projects focused on platform security and identity management.
• Define identity, provisioning, authentication, authorization, and auditing for autonomous agents and other non-human actors.
• Build and evolve Discord's employee authorization platform with discoverable, role-based, least-privilege, and self-service permissions.
• Design and harden Zero Trust architecture for human and service-to-service authentication across internal tooling.
• Automate continuous permission right-sizing and develop secure cloud identity baselines.
• Secure the software supply chain from development environments through CI/CD and production, while advising on threat models, architecture, risk assessments, and code reviews.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building and operating production systems or infrastructure.
• 3+ years of software development experience in a general-purpose language, particularly Python, TypeScript, or Rust.
• 3+ years of experience securing systems serving millions of users.
• Experience building or operating identity and access management systems at scale.
• Understanding of RBAC, OAuth, OIDC, SSO, Zero Trust architectures, mTLS, and cloud IAM.
• Experience securing multi-cloud environments such as GCP, Cloudflare, or AWS, and designing software for internal or external customers.

Nice to have

• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Distroless, OCI, Terraform, Bazel, or Buildkite.
• Experience provisioning service and workload identities with PKI and operating mTLS between services.
• Experience with Cloudflare Access, Teleport, Vault, cloud KMS, or secrets managers.
• Experience with distributed systems, service meshes, Linux, Salt, virtual machines, or bare-metal hosts.
• Experience leading complex migrations or organization-wide risk management programs.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on security and privacy for a platform used by millions of daily active users.
• Collaborate across engineering through a highly autonomous and horizontally integrated team.
• Equity and employee benefits are included in the compensation package.
• Reasonable accommodations are available during the interview process.