Senior Software Engineer, Application Security
Discord · Communication
seniorRemote
Salary Range (USD)
$196k - $245k
Location
San Francisco, USA
Visa Support
Not mentioned
Funding Stage
Unknown
Job Responsibilities
- • Build security features that protect user accounts
- • Strengthen authentication and session security
- • Improve security‑critical services
- • Ship user‑facing account security tools
- • Address emerging threats in collaboration with product teams
Required Skills
hands‑on application security experienceability to read and write code across multiple languagesexperience shipping production softwaresound judgment prioritizing real risk over checklist securityexperience with authentication, passkeys, MFA, or session managementPythonTypeScriptReactRustJavaScriptGCP
Engineering Culture & Tech Stack
PythonTypeScriptReactRustJavaScriptGCP
hands‑on product engineering
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Discord | Senior Software Engineer, Application Security | REMOTE (US West Coast) or San Francisco, CA | $196K-$245K base + equity
Discord is where communities and friend groups spend time together, on desktop, mobile, and now more and more inside games and third-party apps built on our platform. That surface area, plus a huge, engaged, occasionally adversarial user base, makes application security a genuinely hard and interesting problem here.
We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the Application Security team. This is hands-on product engineering: building security features that protect user accounts, strengthening authentication and session security, and improving security-critical services. You will work directly with product teams to ship user-facing account security tools and address emerging threats.
Stack: Python primarily, some TypeScript/React, some Rust, occasional JavaScript. Runs on GCP.
Looking for: hands-on AppSec experience (not just compliance-flavored security), comfort reading and writing code across languages, experience shipping production software, and sound judgment on prioritizing real risk over checklist security. Experience with authentication, passkeys, MFA, or session management is especially relevant.
Location: Remote from the US West Coast. If you are in the Bay Area, our SF office is an option. Relocation to the Bay Area is not required.
Interview process: recruiter call, coding round, HM interview, virtual onsite, decision.
Apply: https://discord.com/jobs/8656854002
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