Senior Privacy Engineer

Discord is used by over 200 million people every month for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does on our platform: play video games. Over 90% of our users play games, spending a combined 1.5 billion hours playing thousands of unique titles on Discord each month. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games.

We're looking for a Privacy Engineer reporting to the Head of Security and Privacy Engineering to join us in protecting Discord's users. If you are a software engineer with a passion for privacy, a deep sense of curiosity, and an endless desire to improve Discord for our users, read on!

What You'll Be Doing:

• Build and maintain solutions that power data deletion and data access, ensuring they remain effective in a dynamic landscape of global regulations and user expectations.


• Lead development of new privacy features, tools, and scalable solutions to optimize the work of the Privacy Engineering team.


• Partner with cross-functional teams, including Engineering, Product, Data, and Legal to ensure product goals align with Discord’s Privacy Principles and regulatory requirements.


• Advocate for privacy-preserving solutions and identify new opportunities to promote our privacy posture.


• Establish a clear vision and roadmap for privacy technology at Discord that is aligned with and supports the efforts and goals of Discord’s cross-functional Privacy organization.


• Lead Privacy incident response efforts, including mitigating situations that may pose a risk to our Privacy Principles, and providing assistance in incident response efforts outside of the privacy domain.

What you have:

• A passion for user privacy and data protection.


• 3+ years of work experience in Privacy or Security engineering.


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


• 3+ years of experience working in cloud-based environments (we use Google Cloud).


• Experience with concepts and practices such as threat modeling, privacy by design, privacy enhancing technologies, and auditing access to data.


• Familiarity with privacy concerns that apply in an industry setting, including consent, deletion, and retention, and a basic understanding of regulations such as GDPR or CCPA.

Bonus Points:

• Experience with container orchestration systems (e.g. Kubernetes).


• Experience with ETL and Data Orchestration Pipelines (e.g. Airflow, Dagster)


• Experience developing, operating, and debugging distributed systems.


• Experience building or integrating with privacy management and legal compliance platforms

Candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties). Relocation assistance may be available.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $196,000 to $220,500 + 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. 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!

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