Discord | Senior Software Engineer, Application Security
Location: REMOTE (US West Coast) or San Francisco, CA Compensation: $196K-$245K base + equity Source: Hacker News
About Discord
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.
About the Role
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.
Technical Stack
- Languages: Python (primary), TypeScript/React, Rust, and occasional JavaScript
- Infrastructure: Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Requirements
- Hands-on AppSec experience (not just compliance-flavored security)
- Comfort reading and writing code across multiple languages
- Experience shipping production software
- Sound judgment on prioritizing real risk over checklist security
- Experience with authentication, passkeys, MFA, or session management is especially relevant
Location Details
- 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
- Hiring Manager (HM) interview
- Virtual onsite
- Decision