2 months ago
Base Salary
$279k - $341k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead, design, and build scalable Python backend systems for processing safety-related signals.
- Provide architectural guidance, system design leadership, and mentorship to engineers.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams on content moderation and compliance tools, including in-house and vendor solutions.
- Implement and enhance ML/AI models and automation for content moderation and decision-making.
- Design systems with an adversarial mindset to address malicious behavior and illegal content.
- Define workstreams, lead projects, and mobilize engineers to deliver impactful outcomes.
Requirements
- Extensive experience developing and maintaining backend systems with Python.
- Strong architecture and system design skills for scalable, reliable content moderation systems and large-scale initiatives.
- Ability to define workstreams, lead projects, and guide engineers through implementation.
- Experience in a domain requiring an adversarial mindset, such as trust, safety, security, or privacy.
- Experience participating in a 24/7 production on-call rotation.
Benefits
- Full-time US-based position restricted to specified counties in the Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay Areas.
- Los Angeles-area employees may work remotely.
- San Francisco-area employees are required to work in the office two days per week.
- Relocation assistance may be available for relocation to the San Francisco Bay Area.
- Discord provides inclusion support and reasonable accommodations during the interview process.
Tech Stack
Categories
About Discord
Discord builds a voice, video, and text chat platform organized around servers for gaming and interest-based communities. It monetizes through Nitro subscriptions, server subscriptions, and digital goods, and offers a developer platform for bots and apps. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is privately held and used by over 200 million people monthly.