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Discord | Senior Software Engineer, Application Security
- Location: San Francisco, CA (ONSITE)
- Compensation: $280K–$330K TC
- Source: Hacker News
About the Role
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're hiring a Senior Application Security Engineer to join the Product Security team.
Responsibilities
- Perform threat modeling and secure design reviews with product and platform teams.
- Build and improve AppSec tooling (SAST/DAST/dependency scanning).
- Work directly with engineering teams to remediate findings.
Technical Stack
- Languages: Python (primary), TypeScript/React, Rust, and occasional JavaScript.
- Infrastructure: Runs on GCP.
Requirements
- Hands-on AppSec experience (not just compliance-flavored security).
- Comfort reading and reviewing code across multiple languages.
- Sound judgment on prioritizing real risk over checklist security.
Interview Process
- Recruiter call
- Coding round
- Hiring Manager interview
- Virtual onsite
- Decision