Senior Platform Security Engineer
Discord · San Francisco Bay Area
Posted 8 days ago · $196,000 to $245,000
or apply directly on Discord's site. We never take the application ourselves.
Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 8 days Discord's roles stay open a median of 45 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- Yes 98% of Discord's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Discord
- high 27 stale, 0 reposted of 49 open
- Hiring momentum
- 69 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Discord's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Discord.
About this role
As a Senior Platform Security Engineer at Discord, you'll focus on enhancing security through software development and operational excellence, particularly in identity and access management. Your responsibilities will include owning software engineering projects, defining identity for non-human actors, building and evolving Discord's employee authorization platform, and designing Zero Trust architecture. You'll also automate permission management and consult on various security assessments and designs.
- benefits
- 2/5
- freshness
- 5/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 5/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Discord as an employer.
What you need
- 5+ years of experience building and operating production systems or infrastructure
- 3+ years of experience writing software in a general-purpose programming language (Python, TypeScript, Rust)
- 3+ years of experience securing systems with millions of users
- Experience building or operating identity and access management systems
- Understanding of modern authentication and authorization concepts (RBAC, OAuth, OIDC, SSO, Zero Trust, mTLS, cloud IAM)
- Experience building in and securing multi-cloud environments (GCP, Cloudflare, AWS)
Nice to have
- Experience defining and orchestrating containers (Kubernetes, Docker)
- Familiarity with build and CI/CD technologies (Terraform, Bazel, Buildkite)
- Provisioned or managed service and workload identity using PKI and mTLS
- Experience with Zero Trust platforms (Cloudflare Access, Teleport)
- Experience with secrets management systems (Vault, cloud KMS)
What you get
- Base salary range of $196,000 to $245,000
- Equity
- Benefits
Worth weighing
- No specific mention of remote work options
- Role involves significant ownership and complexity, which may appeal to candidates looking for impactful work
- Salary range provided, but actual compensation may vary based on skills and experience
Summarised from Discord's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Discord on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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