discord
Engineering Manager, Application Security
At a Glance
- Location
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Compensation
- or this full-time position is $248,000 to $279,000 + equity + benefits. Our sala
- Posted
- 2026-03-04T00:29:28-05:00
Key Requirements
Required Skills
Domain Knowledge
- Education
- Engineering
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).
Responsibilities
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.
Secure our code and development process from IDE to production.
Scale detection and remediation of security vulnerabilities..
Work with other Discord teams to limit security exposure to our users, while also shaking out security bugs before they enter production.
Partner with Discord's product engineering and product management teams to champion new security features for our users.