Listing Description

Discord is about giving people the power to create space to find belonging in their lives. Trusted by millions of people to keep their communications secure, private, and out of the hands of evildoers, security and privacy are necessary to Discord's success.

We are looking for an experienced Detection and Response Engineer reporting to the Engineering Manager, Detection & Response to join us in building a secure and private platform for Discord's users. If you are an Engineer with a passion for security and privacy, a deep sense of curiosity, and an endless desire to improve Discord, read on!

What you’ll do:

• Use your background in application, network, and cloud security to act as subject matter expert in incident response


• Identify, analyze, and respond to malicious behaviors from a variety of sources and create action plans to mitigate similar incidents in the future


• Research new threat attack vectors and ensure that our detection and response capability is in line with the current threat landscape


• Develop automation to improve detection and response time and reduce the likelihood and effect of future incidents


• Collaborate with Product, Infrastructure, and Safety teams to identify new alert sources and detections as it pertains to new product development.


• Support threat intelligence, threat hunting, intrusion detection, and penetration testing efforts.


• Participate in developing well-engineered and performant detective tooling and automation.

What you have:

• Strong domain knowledge in security incident response and detection


• 3+ years of experience in at least one general purpose programming language (e.g. Python, Rust, Go).


• 3+ years experience securing, monitoring, log analysis and conducting investigations in cloud-based environments (we use Google Cloud).


• Experience contributing code to a fast-moving codebase and deploying artifacts to production


• Knowledge of malware and exploit tools, attacker methodologies, techniques, and procedures for infiltration and persistence.


• Experience in detection building from large datasets to automate incident detection and response processes.


• Experience “threat hunting,” i.e. using threat intel to proactively and iteratively investigate potential risks and finding suspicious behavior in the environment.


• Experience building and iterating on observability of large-scale distributed systems.


• Experience with container orchestration technologies (we use Kubernetes).


• Experience with serverless technologies (e.g. Cloudflare Workers, Google Cloud Functions)

Bonus Points:

• Experience with detection and response in BeyondCorp / Zero-trust network environments


• Hands on experience with Google Cloud, Cloudflare, Panther SIEM

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $165,000 to $178,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits.