Senior Software Engineer - Safety Experience

As a Senior Engineer on the Safety Experience team, you'll lead the charge in making Discord's platform safer for hundreds of millions of users. You'll design, build, and maintain product features and systems that prevent harmful activities while ensuring regulatory compliance. Keeping users safe is essential for Discord's growth, making your team's work critical. This role reports to the Engineering Manager of Safety Experience.

What you'll be doing:

• Lead development of highly‑visible, user‑facing products that protect Discord's users.


• Design, build, and deploy robust production APIs, backend services, and data pipelines to launch safety features at scale.


• Collaborate cross‑functionally with Product, Design, Policy, Data Science, ML, Legal, and T&S Operations to create solutions that are both impactful and lovable.


• Iterate on in-house tooling to supercharge our T&S workflows.


• Respond rapidly to the ever‑evolving abuse and compliance landscape.

What you should have:

• 5+ years experience writing Python and utilizing back-end API frameworks (Flask, Django).


• 5+ years experience developing front-end interfaces with JavaScript (React, TypeScript) for both web and mobile platforms.


• Familiarity with databases such as Cassandra, Postgres, and ScyllaDB.


• Demonstrated success leading end‑to‑end delivery of complex projects: breaking down ambiguity, coordinating rollouts, and aligning stakeholders.


• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot, debug, and test complex systems in a live, production environment.


• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work well with cross-functional partners, designers, and other engineers.


• Experience using metrics and dashboards to make data-driven decisions and develop insightful reports.


• Experience utilizing AI tools like Claude Code and Cursor to supercharge dev workflows

Bonus Points

• Experience in the Safety or Anti‑Abuse domain.


• Experience analyzing and visualizing data using Datadog or Mode.


• Familiarity with real‑time streaming systems like Kafka or Pub-Sub.


• Ability to contribute to offline analytics jobs and processes.


• Experience building and operating mobile‑client features on iOS and Android.


• Exposure to lower‑level languages such as Go, Rust, and Elixir.


• A strong moral compass that drives you to protect users and do the right thing.

Candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties). Relocation assistance may be available.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $196,000 to $220,500 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits.