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Senior Software Engineer - Safety Processing

Discord Inc.San Francisco Bay Area
On-site Full-time $196K/yr - $220.5K/yr

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Experience Level

Senior

Qualifications

Key Responsibilities:Lead complex safety infrastructure projects from inception to post-launch evaluation and refinement. Design and sustain critical systems for automated content review, enforcement, and safety signal processing at an immense scale. Adopt an adversarial mindset to identify potential security risks, abuse scenarios, edge cases, and scalability issues to ensure user protection. Work collaboratively with Trust & Safety, machine learning, policy, and product teams to develop and implement innovative solutions.

About the job

Discord is a vibrant platform utilized by over 200 million users each month for a multitude of reasons, with a significant focus on gaming. A staggering 90% of our users engage in gaming activities, collectively spending 1.5 billion hours playing thousands of unique titles on Discord every month. As we look to the future, Discord is poised to play a pivotal role in enhancing the gaming experience by fostering communication and camaraderie among players before, during, and after their gaming sessions.

The Safety Processing team is at the forefront of developing systems that empower Discord to effectively detect, review, and act upon harmful content at scale. Our mission is to build robust infrastructure and decision-making systems that facilitate accurate, efficient, and fair content moderation across the platform. We're on the lookout for a Senior Software Engineer capable of managing intricate, multi-phase projects and delivering high-quality systems that safeguard millions of users on a daily basis.

As a Senior Engineer within the Safety Processing team, you will assume full ownership of projects from the initial design phase through to post-launch monitoring and iterative improvements. You will tackle challenging issues that lie at the intersection of automation, large-scale distributed systems, and content safety. Your contributions will include the development of automated decision systems that enhance our review capacity tenfold, the creation of enforcement infrastructure that manages millions of decisions each day, and the architecture of systems that centralize and streamline safety signal processing. Collaboration with Trust & Safety operations, machine learning teams, policy experts, and product partners will be key to delivering solutions that enhance Discord's safety while upholding our commitment to an exceptional user experience. You will create products that users love while maintaining Discord's high quality standards, utilizing an 80/20 mindset and a user-focused approach. We value a growth-oriented mindset and encourage diving into new code and technologies to implement safety solutions that protect our user community.

This role presents the opportunity to work on systems that have a direct impact on user safety, address innovative technical challenges in content moderation at scale, and help shape the future of how Discord ensures community safety.

About Discord Inc.

Discord is a dynamic communication platform that fosters connection among millions of users, particularly within the gaming community. By providing tools that enhance voice, video, and text communication, Discord facilitates an interactive and engaging environment for gamers and communities worldwide.

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