Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure (Anti-Abuse)

We’re looking for a seasoned blacksmith whose sworn duty is to create weapons that defend our users from all manner of unwanted content and behavior. As an Anti-Abuse engineer, you will equip the Trust & Safety team with fully-featured, battle-tested tools to keep any marauders at bay from our users. Come join the Anti-Abuse team and help forge the way to a safer Discord.

Discord is home to passionate people who value our mission — bringing people together around games. Diversity and inclusiveness are a critical part of how we get there. We believe that with diversity comes a better product, better decisions, and a better work environment. Everyone here is committed to making Discord representative of the world we want to live and play in.

What you'll be doing

• Leveling up our Trust & Safety team by identifying bottlenecks in their workflow and building tools that deliver elegant and effective solutions
• Building our in-house, real-time rules engine written in Python and powered by Kafka
• Deploying your own code and building your own tools to do so
• Moving quickly to respond to the ever changing landscape of abuse on Discord

What you should have

• Minimum of 4 years experience building scalable backend or real-time data systems
• Experience working on, and deploying, large-scale systems in Python, Go, or other similar language
• Experience debugging a live production system
• Ability to think on your feet and context switch at a moments notice

Bonus Points

• Prior experience working in the Anti-Abuse domain
• Experience with data warehouses like Druid, BigQuery, and Redshift
• Experience with real-time streaming data systems like Kafka
• Ability to build client-side UI in React
• You have a strong moral compass that navigates and motivates you

Can supply your own anvil