Staff Software Engineer, Platform Security

Benefits

Parental leave

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Verification

Not verified checked Jun 7, 2026

Salary

$248K-$310K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

401(k) match

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

139% above the BLS role benchmark for software engineering aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

Role function

Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Seniority

Staff Plus From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Work mode

Remote From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

In-office days

0 days From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Schedule

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Weekend work

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Company

Company stage

Public-company From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Equity

Offered From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Application

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Deadline

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About this role

Staff Software Engineer, Platform Security San Francisco Bay Area or Remote Discord is used by over 200 million people every month for many different reasons, but there's one thing that nearly everyone does on our platform: play video games. Over 90% of our users play games, spending a combined 1.5 billion hours playing thousands of unique titles on Discord each month. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games. More broadly, Discord is about empowering people to find belonging in all kinds of communities, and those people trust us to keep their communications safe. Our Platform Security Engineering team protects the systems we use to create Discord, making the “secure way” the “easy way.” We're looking for a Staff Engineer to advance this mission through security expertise, software development, and operational excellence. In this technical leadership role, you'll articulate and pursue the most leveraged opportunities to reduce security risk across Engineering, designing and building lovable “paved paths” for managing identities and access, shipping code, configuring cloud infrastructure, and operating services. If you're a security engineer who's deeply curious, eager to own technically and socially complex projects, and excited to improve security and privacy at Discord, read on! What you'll do - Shape company-wide security strategy and lead software engineering projects on a highly-autonomous and horizontally-integrated team with a lot of leverage. This is a

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