Senior Software Engineer, Application Security at Discord
Core
Building and improving application security tooling (SAST/DAST/dependency scanning) and conducting threat modeling and secure design reviews for Discord's platform.
Role type
Senior IC application security engineer
Builds
AppSec tooling and secure design patterns for desktop, mobile, and game integrations
Domain
Cybersecurity / Application Security
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | infrastructure
Required skills
threat modeling, secure design review, SAST/DAST implementation, dependency scanning, code review across multiple languages, risk prioritization
Preferred skills
hands-on AppSec experience, comfort with adversarial user bases
Technologies
Python, TypeScript, React, Rust, JavaScript, GCP
Responsibilities
Conduct threat modeling and secure design reviews with product and platform teams; build and improve AppSec tooling; work directly with engineering teams to remediate security findings
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
