# Senior Software Engineer - Safety Experience 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: 2026-09-18
- Apply by: 2026-11-02
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/discord/jobs/8817776002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/discord-senior-software-engineer-safety-experience/

## 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

- Lead development of highly‑visible, user‑facing products that protect Discord's users
- Design, build, and deploy robust production APIs, backend services, and data pipelines to launch safety features at scale
- Collaborate cross‑functionally with Product, Design, Policy, Data Science, ML, Legal, and T&S Operations to create solutions that are both impactful and lovable
- Iterate on in-house tooling to supercharge our T&S workflows
- Respond rapidly to the ever‑evolving abuse and compliance landscape
- 5+ years experience writing Python and utilizing back-end API frameworks (Flask, Django)

Tags: Developers