Engineering Manager, Application Security

discord· 86 open roles

Location TBD On-siteFull-time3 weeks ago

Salary

$248,000 - $279,000

Experience

Mid

Job Type

Full-time

Posted

3 weeks ago

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About This RoleAI processing…

Discord is used by over 200 million people every month for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does on our platform: play video games. Over 90% of our users play games, spending a combined 1.5 billion hours playing thousands of unique titles on Discord each month. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games.

Key Responsibilities

1
Lead a team of security engineers who will build and implement application security tools and services, perform secure design reviews and threat modeling, and provide guidance on secure development at Discord.
2
Secure our code and development process from IDE to production.
3
Scale detection and remediation of security vulnerabilities..
4
Work with other Discord teams to limit security exposure to our users, while also shaking out security bugs before they enter production.
5
Partner with Discord's product engineering and product management teams to champion new security features for our users.

Requirements

You have 3+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager and have managed a team of 3+ Security Engineers.
You have experience programming in at least one general purpose programming language (e.g. Python, Rust, Go).
You have development-with-AI experience and a good grasp of AI Security practices.
You have experience leading multiple security projects with a cross-functional group.
You have experience with tools used to automate vulnerability discovery and remediation.
You have experience operating in cloud-based environments (we use Google Cloud, but experience with other platforms is ok too).
You are comfortable writing the roadmap - not just following one.
You are an expert at reasoning about the security of complex systems, even if they contain components you aren't familiar with.
Experienced with Threat Modeling and analyzing complex designs.
Working knowledge of modern and frequently used cryptographic primitives.
You have experience with container orchestration technologies (e.g. Kubernetes).
Experience with Linux system administration.
Familiar with common application vulnerabilities on the platforms Discord ships on (that's all of them).