Engineering Manager, Platform Security
DiscordCommunication Platform company
San Francisco Bay Area$248,000 - $310,000Manager
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About the role
TL;DR
Lead a platform security engineering team to reduce risk and build secure systems.
- •Discord is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of software engineers focused on platform security.
- •This role involves shaping company-wide security strategy and building "paved paths" for identity and access management, code shipping, cloud infrastructure configuration, and service operations.
- •Key Responsibilities Build and operate identity and access management (IAM) systems.
- •and third-party software supply chains.
- •Develop secure baselines for cloud infrastructure.
- •Manage infrastructure vulnerabilities.
- •Consult on risk assessments and architectural designs.
- •Requirements 3+ years of experience as a people manager.
- •Passion for creating diverse and inclusive teams.
- •Comfort with writing roadmaps. 3+ years of experience securing systems with millions of users.
- •Expertise in reasoning about the security of complex systems.
- •Experience building in and securing cloud-based environments.
- •Experience writing software in a general-purpose programming language.
- •Experience developing with agentic AI.
Required skills
Engineering ManagementIAMPythonTypeScriptRustGoogle CloudAWSOAuthTerraformKubernetesDocker
Domain expertise
gamingdeveloper-tools
Benefits & perks
equity, benefits
Tech stack
PythonTypeScriptRustGoogle CloudAWSOAuthTerraformKubernetesDocker