2 months ago
Base Salary
$196k - $245k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own autonomous, end-to-end software engineering projects for platform security.
- Define and implement identity provisioning, scoping, authentication, authorization, and auditing for autonomous agents and other non-human actors.
- Build and evolve Discord’s Access employee authorization platform with discoverable, role-based, least-privilege, and self-service permissions.
- Design and harden Zero Trust architecture for human and service-to-service authentication.
- Automate continuous permission right-sizing and develop secure cloud identity baselines.
- Secure the software supply chain from development environments through CI/CD and production.
- Consult on risk assessments, architecture designs, threat models, and code reviews.
- Build service identity provisioning with PKI and mTLS and improve secrets issuance, rotation, and scoping.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience building and operating production systems or infrastructure.
- At least 3 years of experience writing software in a general-purpose programming language, especially Python, TypeScript, or Rust.
- At least 3 years of experience securing systems with millions of users.
- Experience building or operating identity and access management systems at scale.
- Understanding of RBAC, OAuth, OIDC, SSO, Zero Trust network architectures, mTLS, and cloud IAM.
- Experience building and securing multi-cloud environments such as GCP, Cloudflare, or AWS.
- Experience designing and building software for internal or external customers beyond the immediate team.
- Preferred experience includes Kubernetes, Docker, Distroless, OCI, Terraform, Bazel, Buildkite, PKI, Cloudflare Access, Teleport, Vault, cloud KMS or secrets managers, service meshes, Envoy, Istio, Linux, and Salt.
- Preferred experience includes leading complex engineering migrations or risk management programs and managing service, workload, VM, or bare-metal identities and infrastructure.
Benefits
- US base salary range is $196,000 to $245,000, plus equity and benefits.
- The role is full-time; the posting does not specify a work arrangement or location details.
- Discord is committed to inclusion and provides reasonable interview accommodations.
Tech Stack
AmbassadorAWSBazelBuildkiteCloudflareDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformIstioKubernetesLinuxPythonRustTerraformTypeScriptVault
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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.