Director of Engineering, Safety
Core
Lead Safety Infrastructure Engineering to build backend systems, AI-driven automation, and tools for content classification, reporting, and enforcement decisions on Discord.
Role type
Director of Engineering (Safety Infrastructure)
Builds
Safety backend infrastructure, decision platforms, classification systems, content understanding pipelines, and observability tools.
Domain
Consumer social platform / Trust & Safety / AI-driven automation
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure | product features
Required skills
Backend distributed systems architecture, Engineering management (20+ engineers, 2+ EMs), AI/ML system integration, Human-in-the-loop operations tooling, Incident response and on-call leadership, Cross-functional collaboration
Preferred skills
Trust & Safety domain experience, MLOps, Vendor management, Payments/fraud/commerce infrastructure
Technologies
Event-driven systems, Service migrations, Platform design, AI/ML systems
Responsibilities
Lead and grow two engineering teams covering safety backend; Drive the automation roadmap with Safety ML; Own queue routing and internal tooling for ops teams; Consolidate fragmented systems and set engineering quality standards; Hire, coach, and grow senior leaders.
Seniority
Director, hands-on IC with management of managers
