This position is based in our San Francisco office. For this role, the Hiring Manager would like folks to be in the office 1-2 days a week.
What you'll do
Own software engineering projects end-to-end on a highly autonomous, horizontally integrated team with a lot of leverage. This is a code-forward role!
Define what identity means for autonomous agents and other non-human actors at Discord (how they're provisioned, scoped, authenticated, authorized, and audited). As the role of these actors grows, and create primitives to implement that vision.
Build and evolve Access, Discord's employee authorization platform, to make permissions discoverable, role-based, least privilege, and self-serve; check out our blog post to learn more!
Design and harden our Zero Trust architecture, spanning human and service-to-service auth*n for Discord’s internal tooling.
Automate continuous permission right-sizing in the spirit of least privilege.
Develop and apply secure baselines for cloud identity, and help secure our software supply chain from the dev environment through CI/CD and into production.
Consult on risk assessments, architectural designs, threat models, code reviews, and more, pragmatically balancing security with other business considerations.
Example projects
Integrate service-to-service and agent-to-service authentication and authorization as out-of-the-box features in Discord's internal developer platform.
Build out service identity provisioning using PKI and mTLS, so services can authenticate each other without shared secrets.
Evaluate or extend infrastructure access tooling such as Teleport for short-lived, auditable access to hosts, databases, and internal systems.
Improve how secrets are issued, rotated, and scoped across our infrastructure.
What we look for
5+ years of experience building and operating production systems or infrastructure
3+ years of experience writing software in a general-purpose programming language (we mainly use Python, TypeScript, and Rust)
3+ years of experience securing systems with millions of users
Experience building or operating identity and access management systems: authentication, authorization, or access control at scale
Understanding of modern authentication and authorization concepts (e.g. RBAC, OAuth, OIDC, SSO, Zero Trust network architectures, mTLS, cloud IAM)
Experience building in and securing multi-cloud environments (e.g. GCP, Cloudflare, AWS)
Experience designing and building software for customers (internal or external) beyond your immediate team
Bonus points if you have…
Experience defining and orchestrating containers (e.g. via Kubernetes, Docker, Distroless, OCI)
Familiarity with build and CI/CD technologies (e.g. Terraform, Bazel, Buildkite)
Provisioned or managed service and workload identity using PKI, including issuing and operating mTLS between services
Experience with Zero Trust platforms such as Cloudflare Access and Teleport, for auditable access to apps, hosts, and internal systems
Experience with secrets management systems (e.g. Vault, or a cloud KMS or secrets manager), including rotation and least-privilege access to secrets
Developed and debugged distributed systems atop GCP, Cloudflare, and/or AWS
Led complex migrations or risk management programs across an engineering organization
Built or operated a service mesh (e.g. Envoy, Istio)
Managed and secured VMs or bare-metal hosts (e.g. Linux, Salt)
Practices to discover industry tools and knowledge that can multiply your team's impact
The base salary range for this full-time position is listed below. This position will also be eligible for equity and benefits. Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance; a 401(k) plan; life and disability insurance; paid time off; and paid parental leave. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits. Applications for this role are accepted on an ongoing basis.
Base Salary
$196,000—$245,000 USD
Why Discord?
Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests, and helps developers build and grow their businesses. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Your future is just a click away!
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