# Senior Platform Security Engineer at Discord

- Company: Discord
- What the company does: Backed by Index.
- Company website: http://discordapp.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $196K to $245K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-08
- Apply by: 2026-10-23
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/discord/jobs/8769799002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/discord-senior-platform-security-engineer/

## About the role

Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does: play video games. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games.

## What they're looking for

- Experience defining and orchestrating containers (e.g. via Kubernetes, Docker, Distroless, OCI)
- Familiarity with build and CI/CD technologies (e.g. Terraform, Bazel, Buildkite)
- Provisioned or managed service and workload identity using PKI, including issuing and operating mTLS between services
- Experience with Zero Trust platforms such as Cloudflare Access and Teleport, for auditable access to apps, hosts, and internal systems
- Experience with secrets management systems (e.g. Vault, or a cloud KMS or secrets manager), including rotation and least-privilege access to secrets
- Developed and debugged distributed systems atop GCP, Cloudflare, and/or AWS

Tags: Security Engineering