Senior Software Engineer (Safety Backend)

Join Discord as a Senior Software Engineer in the Safety Processing team. You'll be responsible for building and improving the infrastructure and decision systems that enable accurate and fair content moderation. This role involves owning high-impact projects, improving production services, and collaborating with various teams to deliver enforcement changes. You'll also contribute to measurement foundations and participate in the team's 24/7 on-call rotation. Enjoy a flexible work model, competitive compensation, health benefits, family support, and opportunities for personal and professional growth.

• Take ownership of complex, critical infrastructure and help stabilize, scale, and evolve Discord's enforcement systems.
• Improve production services that process millions of enforcement decisions per day, including participating in the team's 24/7 on-call rotation.
• Partner with Trust & Safety, Policy, ML, Data Science, and Legal teams to deliver enforcement changes ranging from policy updates to compliance-critical pipeline improvements.
• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience with a focus on backend services and infrastructure
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, including experience working across Trust & Safety, Policy, Legal, or Operations stakeholders
• Strong debugging skills and ability to navigate complex, multi-service codebases. Many of our systems have deep interdependencies
• Using Gen AI products, like Claude Code, as part of your daily workflow
• Demonstrated adversarial thinking. The ability to anticipate misuse, edge cases, and system vulnerabilities in systems that bad actors are actively trying to circumvent
• Experience being in 24/7 on-call rotations
• Demonstrated ability to own projects end-to-end and deliver results on time, including in ambiguous or transitional environments
• Experience building and operating distributed systems and production services at scale ( use GCP, PostgreSQL, Redis, Pub/Sub, KKV, and gRPC)
• Strong programming skills in Python
• Familiarity with Rust
• Experience with content moderation, trust & safety, enforcement infrastructure, or related problem domains
• Familiarity with legally mandated reporting pipelines or compliance-sensitive systems
• Experience with workflow automation or decision systems, particularly handler-based or rules-driven enforcement architectures
• Experience with observability tooling, defining SLOs, building dashboards, and instrumenting distributed systems with Datadog or similar
• A strong passion for Discord and making online communities safer