Senior Software Engineer - Safety 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.

The Safety Processing team is responsible for the systems that power Discord's ability to detect, review, and enforce against harmful content at scale. We build the infrastructure and decision systems that enable accurate, efficient, and fair content moderation across all of Discord. We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer who can handle complex, multi-milestone projects and deliver high-quality systems that protect millions of users daily.

As a Senior Engineer on Safety Processing, you'll take full ownership of projects from initial design through post-launch monitoring and iteration. You'll work on challenging problems at the intersection of automation, large-scale distributed systems, and content safety. You'll help build automated decision systems that scale our review capacity by 10x, develop enforcement infrastructure that handles millions of decisions per day, or architect systems that centralize and simplify safety signal processing. You'll collaborate closely with Trust & Safety operations, ML teams, Policy, and product partners to deliver solutions that make Discord safer while maintaining our commitment to user experience. You'll deliver lovable products while maintaining Discord's high quality bar, utilizing 80/20 thinking and a user-centric approach. You'll embody a growth mindset, diving into new code and technologies to deliver safety solutions that protect millions of users daily. This person reports to the Engineering Manager of Safety Processing.

This role offers the opportunity to work on systems that directly impact user safety, tackle novel technical challenges in content moderation at scale, and help shape the future of how Discord keeps communities safe.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Own complex safety infrastructure projects end-to-end, from initial design through post-launch monitoring and iteration
• Build and maintain critical systems for automated content review, enforcement, and safety signal processing at massive scale
• Apply an adversarial mindset to your work, thinking through security, abuse scenarios, edge cases, and scalability concerns to protect Discord's users
• Collaborate with Trust & Safety, ML, Policy, and product teams to understand requirements and deliver effective safety solutions
• Break down complex, multi-milestone projects into smaller work streams while managing stakeholders and dependencies across teams
• Debug and resolve issues within the