Discord

Staff Software Engineer, Enterprise Platform

Discord 📍 California, USA 🏢 On-site Posted Aug 4, 2026 via Discord careers
full-time 📂 Software Development 🏢 On-site 🏭 Media & Entertainment

✨ Job Highlights

  • ★Pay: $248,000 to $279,000 a year
  • ★On-site: California
  • ★Full-time role in software development
  • ★Apply directly on Discord's careers site
  • ★Posted August 4, 2026

Full Job Description

Staff Software Engineer, Enterprise Platform job at Discord in California

This Staff Software Engineer, Enterprise Platform job is with Discord in California. The job is full-time and office based. The salary range published with the job is $248,000 to $279,000 a year.

Discord describes the job as follows.

Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does: play video games. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games.

Discord's Enterprise Technology org is building a software engineering discipline from the ground up, and this is the founding engineering hire. There is no Enterprise Platform team yet. You will not be maintaining a status quo or joining an existing backlog: you will define the discipline, set the technical foundation, and build the platform that lets the internal systems enabling Discordians scale with the company.

Discord's mission is to cultivate belonging, and doing that at scale requires internal systems that move as fast as the product itself. The mission of this role is to turn our enterprise infrastructure into self-service software. Your job is to replace manual consoles and tickets with a platform of reusable primitives, building blocks like "provision a device" or "push an IAM policy or app integration through code," exposed through clean APIs and self-service portals. As a code-forward Staff engineer, you will design abstractions that hide the messy reality of Okta, Jamf, and Terraform (our identity, device management, and infrastructure-as-code tools) behind interfaces people actually want to use, operating with a platform-as-a-product mindset.

What You'll Do

  • Manage the device fleet as code: Move device configuration off consoles and into versioned, API-driven infrastructure for endpoint management and hardware provisioning.
  • Automate the identity layer: Manage identity systems and their connections to downstream apps as code, from SSO and SCIM integrations to account workflows, so changes ship through version control and CI/CD instead of an admin console.
  • Own app delivery and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC): Build deployment pipelines and provisioning patterns that let internal systems be built and changed safely, establishing CI/CD standards.
  • Build the self-service layer: Design and ship the APIs, CLIs, and portals that compose primitives into paved paths, like a new hire's first day, where software access and group memberships land in one automated, auditable flow.
  • Set the foundation: Define the technical direction and architecture for the discipline, writing the RFCs and documentation that future hires will build on.
  • What You Should Have

  • 6+ years building and operating production software and systems at a technology company, with a track record of owning ambiguous projects end to end.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals. You write production code (we lean on Python, TypeScript and Rust), and design, test, and ship it. This is not a systems admin role.
  • Deep, hands-on IAM experience (SSO, SCIM, OAuth/OIDC, RBAC) and fluency with infrastructure as code (Terraform) and CI/CD.
  • Experience treating endpoint and fleet management as an API-driven engineering surface at scale.
  • A platform-as-a-product mindset. You have built self-service tooling that people chose to adopt.
  • Comfort with ambiguity and a founder's temperament; energized by building from scratch.
  • Bonus Points

  • Hands-on experience with Okta, Jamf, or Intune.
  • Experience with identity and access governance for non-human, workload, or AI-agent principals.
  • Background at a high-growth consumer tech company with a highly technical employee base.

  • The US base salary range for this full-time position is $248,000 to $279,000 + 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.

    Why Discord?

    Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests, and helps developers build and grow their businesses. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Your future is just a click away!

    Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process. We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know.

    Please see our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy for details regarding Discord’s collection and usage of personal information relating to the application and recruitment process by clicking HERE.

    Questions about this job

    How much does this Staff Software Engineer, Enterprise Platform job pay?

    Discord advertises $248,000 to $279,000 a year for this role.

    Can I work remotely in this job?

    No, it is an on-site job in California.

    What does Discord look for in candidates?

    The posting mentions skills such as Python, TypeScript, Rust and Terraform. Read the full description above for the complete list.

    How do I apply for the Staff Software Engineer, Enterprise Platform job?

    Use the apply button on this page. It takes you to Discord's own application form, so your CV goes directly to their hiring team.

    Is this job still open?

    Discord published the role on August 4, 2026. We check the employer's job board every day and take this page down when the role closes, so if you can read it, the job was still listed at our last check.

    Source: Discord careers page (job-boards.greenhouse.io). Applications go straight to the employer. We check the listing daily and remove it once it closes.

    Required Skills

    Python TypeScript Rust Terraform CI/CD

    🏢 About Discord

    Discord is a voice, video and text platform that helps friends come together to hang out, play games and have fun. When Jason Citron and Stanislav Vishnevskiy founded Discord in 2015 they had a hunch that multiplayer gaming would be the future of entertainment and that people would need a communications platform designed for them to talk with their gaming friends. Today, gaming has become the largest form of entertainment in the world, bigger than movies and music combined. It’s the fastest-growing as well. Discord makes it feel like you’re…

    Industry: Media & Entertainment

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    🏢 Company Discord
    📍 Location California, USA
    💼 Job Type full-time
    🌐 Work Mode 🏢 On-site
    🏭 Industry Media & Entertainment
    🗓 Posted Date Aug 4, 2026
    🔗 Via Discord careers
    📅 Deadline Dec 16, 2034

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