Engineering Manager (Platform Security)

Join Discord as an Engineering Manager (Platform Security) and lead a team of software engineers in reducing security risk across the organization. You will shape the company-wide security strategy, build and operate identity and access management systems, secure software supply chains, develop secure baselines for cloud infrastructure, and consult on risk assessments and architectural designs. Enjoy a flexible work model, competitive compensation, health benefits, family support, generous PTO, wellness stipends, and opportunities for professional growth.

• Lead a team of software engineers in identifying and pursuing opportunities to reduce security risk across Engineering.
• Design and build "paved paths" for managing identities and access, shipping code, configuring cloud infrastructure, and operating services.
• Shape company-wide security strategy and lead a highly-autonomous and horizontally-integrated team of software engineers in building and operating identity and access management systems.
• Experience building in and securing cloud-based environments (we use GCP, Cloudflare, and AWS)
• Expert reasoning about the security of complex systems, even if they contain unfamiliar components
• Comfort with writing the roadmap, not just following one
• Experience writing software in a general-purpose programming language (we use Python, Typescript, and Rust)
• Passion for creating diverse and inclusive teams and coaching engineers
• 3+ years of experience securing systems with millions of users
• 3+ years of experience as people manager, having managed a team of 3+ security software engineers
• Experience developing with agentic AI, and a good grasp of AI security practices
• Understanding of modern authentication and authorization concepts (e.g. RBAC, OAuth, Zero Trust network architectures, mTLS)
• Familiarity with build and CI/CD technologies (e.g. Terraform, Bazel, Buildkite, Spacelift)
• Experience defining and orchestrating containers (e.g. via Kubernetes, Docker, Distroless, OCI) and serverless workloads (e.g. Cloudflare Workers)
• Experience with running and operationalizing security platforms such as Wiz