Senior Software Engineer, Application Security

About the role

Discord is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Application Security team to protect user accounts and enhance platform security. The role involves designing and implementing full-stack security solutions, strengthening authentication services, and partnering with product teams to ship user-facing security tools. You will work on identifying emerging threats and building automated security controls to ensure the safety of millions of users.

Responsibilities

• Join an engineering team designing and implementing full-stack, user-facing security solutions that protect hundreds of millions of Discord users.
• Lead full-stack work to strengthen session security and authentication for Discord’s users.
• Improve, operate, and maintain security-critical authentication services, owning their correctness and security.
• Partner with Product teams to drive adoption of stronger authentication and to ship user-facing account security tools.
• Identify and design solutions for emerging threats to user account security.
• Research and implement new security capabilities for the Discord platform, staying current on the authentication and session security landscape.
• Build security controls and tools that emphasize self-service, automation, and performance to help identify and mitigate account security flaws.

Required skills

• Application Security
• Python
• Go
• Java
• Rust
• Authentication
• WebAuthn
• Passkeys
• FIDO2
• MFA
• Session management
• Cloud-based environments

Nice to have

• C
• C++

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience securing production applications
• 3+ years of experience programming in at least one general-purpose programming language

About the Company

Discord is a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests, and helps developers build and grow their businesses.