# Software Engineer, Safety Processing at Discord

- Company: Discord
- What the company does: Backed by Index.
- Company website: http://discordapp.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area or Remote (U.S.)
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $160K to $220K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-21
- Apply by: 2026-11-05
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/discord/jobs/8823881002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/discord-software-engineer-safety-processing/

## 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

- Scale and Improve Discord’s ability to review and detect harmful content on the platform
- Build and maintain production systems that operate at massive scale, participating in on-call rotations
- Apply an adversarial mindset to your work - thinking through security, abuse scenarios, edge cases, and scalability concerns
- Collaborate closely with Trust & Safety, ML, Policy, and product teams to understand requirements and deliver effective solutions
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience focused on backend services and/or infrastructure in Python (or similar)
- Experience building and operating distributed systems and production services at scale such as GCP or AWS

Tags: Developers