Discord jobs

Software Engineer, Distributed Systems at Discord building large-scale, reliable distributed systems for realtime infrastructure and text chat. San Francisco Bay Area on-site position requiring 2+ years backend systems experience, distributed systems expertise, and infrastructure/DevOps knowledge, with $160–180k base salary plus equity.

Senior Software Engineer role on Discord's Safety Platform team, responsible for building and maintaining critical safety infrastructure at scale, including the Osprey investigation tool. Requires 5+ years backend/services experience and on-call participation. San Francisco Bay Area or Los Angeles onsite/hybrid position.

Director of Engineering, Safety at Discord—a leadership role managing two engineering teams (~20 engineers across two teams with EM direct reports) responsible for safety backend infrastructure, classification systems, content understanding, and intake/routing pipelines. Requires 5+ years as software engineer plus 5+ years as EM with 2+ years managing managers, strong backend/distributed systems knowledge, and AI/ML fluency. Based in San Francisco Bay Area.

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer at Discord's Player Experience team responsible for building features that help users connect and make friends through gaming. Tech stack includes React, TypeScript, Python; requires 5+ years experience with shipping features across desktop and mobile. Based in San Francisco Bay Area. While this is a strong software engineering fit, it is on-site/hybrid without explicit remote option, violating James's hard remote-only constraint.

Discord's Enforce Squad, a new team within Safety Processing, is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to own critical infrastructure that translates safety decisions into enforcement actions like bans, warnings, and content removal across the platform. You'll improve production services processing millions of enforcement decisions daily, apply adversarial thinking to anticipate abuse patterns and system vulnerabilities, partner across Trust & Safety, Policy, ML, and Legal teams, and contribute to measurement foundations with Data Science to define enforcement metrics. Required: 4+ years backend/infrastructure experience, strong Python skills, proven experience building and operating distributed systems at scale (GCP, PostgreSQL, Redis, Pub/Sub, gRPC), end-to-end project ownership, complex codebase debugging, adversarial thinking, 24/7 on-call experience, and cross-functional collaboration skills. Bonus experience includes content moderation, Rust, compliance-sensitive systems, workflow automation, observability tooling (Datadog), and passion for online safety. Based in San Francisco Bay Area (relocation assistance may be available) with a US base salary of $196,000–$220,500 plus equity and benefits; this is a mission-critical role requiring 24/7 on-call participation and the ability to anticipate and defend against sophisticated abuse patterns in legally compliant systems.

Senior Indirect Tax Analyst at Discord, a gaming communication platform. The role manages sales/use tax, VAT/GST, and corporate income tax compliance across multiple jurisdictions, prepares tax returns and provisions, and administers tax technology platforms. Remote-eligible within US (San Francisco Bay Area or distributed).

Senior Data Engineer, Analytics role at Discord focusing on building transformation layers, semantic models, and curated analytical datasets. Responsibilities include designing data models, owning metric definitions, building dashboards, partnering with data science/product teams, and establishing data quality standards using SQL, Python, and BI tools. Based in San Francisco Bay Area.

Senior Product Designer, Ads at Discord is a product design leadership role focused on designing Discord's Quests advertising product. Responsibilities include end-to-end UX design, mockups, prototypes, design systems, and cross-functional collaboration with product and engineering teams. Located in San Francisco (on-site). Requires 5+ years of product design experience. This is a design profession, not software engineering.

Senior Product Manager for Discord's Platform Analytics product, a B2B data tools offering that serves game developer and publisher partners. You'll own the analytics product end-to-end—strategy, roadmap, and execution—working closely with data engineering and data science on pipeline architecture while maintaining direct relationships with major studio partners through Business Development and Customer Success. The role requires 5+ years of PM experience with a formal background in data science or analytics (you need to credibly discuss data modeling and pipeline architecture with engineers), plus prior experience working at a top game developer or publisher where you actually used platform analytics to make decisions. You'll be deeply customer-facing, representing the product in senior-level conversations with studio leads and synthesizing partner feedback into prioritized roadmap decisions across competing needs. The base salary is $196,000–$220,500 plus equity and benefits, and this is a full-time position in the San Francisco Bay Area. A deal-breaker stand-out: this role specifically requires formal data science/analytics background and prior game industry experience—not just general PM skills.