• 5+ years experience building scalable backend or real-time data systems
• 2+ years experience as an Engineering Manager
• Experience operating and deploying large-scale distributed systems, including Kubernetes experience
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work well cross-functionally
• Ability to work with others to create pragmatic solutions — and then evolve and generalize them
• Confidence to dive deep into the technical details and challenge designs or solutions

Desirable

• The focus of Safety Platform is to make Discord’s users safer by creating scalable and proactive systems to limit bad actors across the platform
• Keeping users safe is an essential contributor to growth at Discord which is why the output of this team is so important
• We are looking for a technical, metrics-driven and hands-on Engineering manager to lead this team
• This team is the glue that holds Safety features together, building product infra that powers frontend, user-facing features including settings, NUX, block/mute and reports as well as gathering signals for ML models to detect harm and taking interventions to keep Discord safe for everyone
• Supporting a team of talented, 8-10 Engineers including a Staff Engineer
• Owning our in-house, real-time abuse detection platform written in Python and Rust
• Working with Product, Data Science, and ML to develop reusable services or architectures
• Building out the signals, datasets, and databases to support our informational needs
• Expanding and deploying internal APIs to combat abusive content
• Maintain operations for our infrastructure on Kubernetes
• Move quickly to respond to the moving target of abuse on Discord