[Remote] Software Engineer, Safety Processing
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Discord is a gaming-focused communication platform serving a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users. The Software Engineer, Safety Processing role focuses on building and operating scalable infrastructure for content moderation, harmful-content detection, enforcement, and safety signal processing, while collaborating with Trust & Safety, ML, Policy, and product teams.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills
- 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
- Debugging skills and ability to navigate complex, multi-service codebases
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills, including experience working with cross-functional partners
- Experience with content moderation, trust & safety, or related problem domains
- Experience with observability tooling, metrics, and monitoring systems at scale
- A strong passion for Discord and making online communities safer
Benefits
- Equity
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