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Senior Software Engineer - Safety Engineering

Discord

San Francisco, CA or Remote (U.S.)

2 years ago

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The Safety Engineering Team at Discord works on building the user-facing features that keeps users safe at Discord. We oversee the end-to-end experience for users and work to collect, annotate, route, and make actions on user reports. Keeping users safe is an essential contributor to growth at Discord which is why the output of the team is so important.

As an engineer on the Safety Engineering team, your focus is on building the user-facing features that helps keep our users safe. The challenge here is immense as we are building the primitives that will power reporting, incident grouping and moderation on Discord. Join a small team that is designing a new stack to power the future of safety at Discord.

What you'll do

Work on building Discords incident dispatcher & report router
Work on our internal Rust & Python stack
Find ways to utilize our internal ML models to annotate & enrich user reports
Expand our internal APIs to combat abusive content
Move quickly to respond to the moving target of abuse on Discord

What you should have

4+ years experience building event-driven systems
Experience working on, and deploying, large-scale systems in Python, Rust, Go, or other similar language
You excel in undefined environments, get excited about creating solutions to complex problems, and building on them.
You can work with others to create pragmatic solutions — and then evolve and generalize them.
You can take a high-level goal and achieve a shippable solution.

Bonus Points

Experience with real-time streaming data systems like Kafka or PubSub
Experience with review queues
Experience working in the Anti-Abuse domain
You have a moral compass that navigates and motivates you

New York City residents only: Minimum salary of $186,000/year + equity and benefits
*Note: Disclosure as required by NYC Pay Transparency Law

Colorado residents only: Minimum salary of $148,800/year + equity and benefits
*Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085(8-5-20).

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Benefits and Perks

Comprehensive medical insurance including Health, Dental and Vision (plus up to $20,000 for gender affirmation procedures)
Mental health resources and quarterly wellness stipends
16+ paid holidays, 4 weeks of PTO + use-what-you-need sick days
Paid parental leave (plus fertility, adoption and other family planning benefits)
Flexible long-term work options (remote and hybrid)
Volunteer time off
A diverse slate of Employee Resource Groups
Plus commuter contributions and other perks for office-based employees

About Us

Discord is a voice, video and text app that helps friends and communities come together to hang out and explore their interests — from artists and activists, to study groups, sneakerheads, plant parents, and more. With 150 million monthly users across 19 million active communities, called servers, Discord has grown to become one of the most popular communications services in the world. Discord was built without selling ads or user data and instead, offers a premium subscription called Nitro that gives users special perks like higher quality streams and fun customizations.

We’re working toward an inclusive world where no one feels like an outsider, where genuine human connection is a click, text chat, or voice call away. A place where everyone can find belonging. Challenging? Heck yes. Rewarding? Double heck yes. It’s a mission that gives us the chance to positively impact millions of people all over the world. So if this strikes a chord with you, come build belonging with us!

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