Engineering Manager, Platform Security

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Build and operate identity and access management (IAM) systems for humans and machines that are user-friendly and promote least privilege
• ▹Secure first- and third-party software supply chains, from the dev environment through CI/CD and into production
• ▹Develop and apply best-in-class secure baselines for cloud infrastructure
• ▹Manage infrastructure vulnerabilities while supporting a high-velocity engineering org with hundreds of developers
• ▹Consult on risk assessments, architectural designs, threat models, and code reviews, pragmatically balancing security with other business considerations

Requirements

• ▹3+ years of experience as a people manager, having managed a team of 3+ security software engineers
• ▹Passion for creating diverse and inclusive teams and coaching engineers
• ▹Comfort with writing the roadmap, not just following one
• ▹3+ years of experience securing systems with millions of users
• ▹Expert reasoning about the security of complex systems, even if they contain unfamiliar components
• ▹Experience building in and securing cloud-based environments (Discord uses GCP, Cloudflare, and AWS)
• ▹Experience writing software in a general-purpose programming language (the team uses Python, TypeScript, and Rust)
• ▹Experience developing with agentic AI, and a good grasp of AI security practices

Nice to have

• ▹Understanding of modern authentication and authorization concepts (RBAC, OAuth, Zero Trust network architectures, mTLS)
• ▹Familiarity with build and CI/CD technologies (e.g. Terraform, Bazel, Buildkite, Spacelift)
• ▹Experience defining and orchestrating containers (Kubernetes, Docker, Distroless, OCI) and serverless workloads (e.g. Cloudflare Workers)
• ▹Experience running and operationalizing security platforms such as Wiz

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Equity compensation

About the company

Discord is a community platform used by over 200 million people every month, more than 90% of whom play video games, spending a combined 1.5 billion hours on the platform each month. Discord aims to make it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games, and to keep communications safe across all kinds of communities.