Software Engineer, Safety Experience

As an Engineer on the Safety Experience team, you’ll help make Discord’s platform safer for hundreds of millions of users. You’ll contribute to designing, building, and maintaining 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

• Contribute to the development of highly visible, user-facing products that protect Discord’s users.


• Design, build, and deploy 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.


• Support rapid responses to the ever-evolving abuse and compliance landscape.

What you should have

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


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


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


• Ability to contribute to end-to-end delivery of projects: working through ambiguity, participating in rollouts, and communicating with stakeholders.


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


• Strong 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.

Bonus Points

• Interest 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. For this role, there is no formal requirement to work from the office. The US base salary range for this full-time position is $160,000 to $180,000 + 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.